Gemma Hoad
Database Administrator, Research Computing Group
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGemma Hoad is a database-focused bioinformatician with over two decades of experience managing large-scale medical and biological data across academic and national research infrastructures. Currently a Database Administrator in Simon Fraser University’s Research Computing Group, she blends hands-on database expertise (MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) with HPC, cloud automation, and reproducible pipeline design to support complex sequencing workloads. Her career includes roles at the EBI, BC Cancer’s Genome Sciences Centre, and the Brinkman Lab, where she optimized data synchronization between major archives and streamlined internal pipelines. Known for writing reusable code in Perl and Python and for pragmatic infrastructure automation, she also contributes to the Bioinformatics National Team of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. Colleagues value her mix of technical depth, long-term institutional knowledge, and a systems-minded approach that turns messy biological data into reliable, shareable resources.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Bioinformatics, MSc, Bioinformatics at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (9)
sequence-alignment7
sequence6
react4
docker-build3
build-environment3
stash2
oms2
linux1
docker1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
brinkmanlab/psortm_commandline_docker
Jun 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 16 pushes in 2 years
brinkmanlab/psortm-docker
Apr 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:39 commits, 16 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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