Faical Congo
NIST CHIPS LIMS (STARFISH NEXUS LIMS, NEMO, MIDAS, METIS) ARCHITECT AND DEVELOPER at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Derwood, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolFaical Congo is an architect and developer with 11 years of experience building reproducible research and laboratory information solutions at NIST, currently leading orchestration and LIMS integrations for the CHIPS program. He combines deep expertise in computational reproducibility, data provenance and cloud-native microservices with practical engineering across IoT, blockchain, AI and cyber-physical security. As lead of projects like Cloud of Reproducible Records (CoRR) and the NIST Software Portal, he designs systems that capture, federate and disseminate experimental records and metadata at scale. Faical’s background spans academic PhD research in reproducibility to hands-on software contributions (OOF3D, CDCS customizations, ephemeral backends), revealing a rare mix of research rigor and production-grade implementation. Based in Derwood, MD, he is fluent in turning complex scientific workflows into auditable, interoperable platforms used across federal and research ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Research Master Degree, Machine Image/Vision Modelling and Processing, BAC+6, Research Master Degree, Machine Image/Vision Modelling and Processing, BAC+6 at Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-II) - Clermont-FerrandEngineering degree, Computer Software Engineering, BAC+5, Engineering degree, Computer Software Engineering, BAC+5 at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et d'Analyse des Systèmes - ENSIASDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Sciences, Reproducibility and Data provenance., Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Sciences, Reproducibility and Data provenance. at EDSPI Clermont-FerrandEngineering degree, Computer Software Engineering, BAC+5, Engineering degree, Computer Software Engineering, BAC+5 at l'ISIMA Clermont-Ferrand
English, French
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Github Skills (52)
simulation10
computation10
nist10
cpu10
metadata10
aiml10
networking10
sia10
disk10
versioning10
jupyter9
catalog9
visualization9
monitoring9
python9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
usnistgov/nist-code-portal
Jun 2020 - Jun 2025
NIST Code Portal
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 5 years 1 month
portal-codenistportal
faical-yannick-congo/nist-software-scraper
Apr 2020 - Jun 2025
NIST Software Portal Scraper: Code.gov.
Contributions:6 pushes in 5 years 2 months
code-govgovscrapynistportal
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