Forest Dussault
AWS Bioinformatics Engineer
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolForest Dussault is an AWS-focused bioinformatics engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable genomics tooling across startups, public sector labs, and enterprise teams. He has progressed from hands-on bioinformatics programming and data management roles in government agencies to leading genomics toolkit efforts at IBM and senior engineering at Gencove, now applying cloud-native patterns at Juniper Genomics. His background (MSc in Integrative Biology) gives him deep domain fluency, enabling him to translate complex sequencing workflows into production-ready AWS pipelines. Known for combining web development chops with bioinformatics rigor, he bridges data, infrastructure, and reproducible science to deliver auditable, high-throughput solutions.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Integrative Biology, Master’s Degree, Integrative Biology at University of Guelph
English
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Github Skills (34)
package-management10
conda10
bioinformatics10
bioconda10
boilerplate8
django8
celery8
heroku8
cookiecutter7
wcag7
python7
docker7
code-library6
dataframe6
pandas6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
BFSSI-Bioinformatics-Lab/bmh_lims
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
Custom LIMS solution for the Bureau of Microbial Hazards
Contributions:4 reviews, 61 PRs, 108 pushes in 5 months
limsbureaumicrobialhazards
BFSSI-Bioinformatics-Lab/centreseq
May 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:24 releases, 184 commits, 174 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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