Ian Boyes
Full Stack Developer Bioinformatician
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolIan Boyes is a Full Stack Developer and Bioinformatician with over a decade of experience building web applications and production-grade Python services for genomics and regulatory diagnostic environments. He blends deep frontend expertise—early React adopter, CSS and testing specialist—with backend skills in Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and RESTful design, and operational know-how in Kubernetes, Terraform and Azure. At the Canadian Food Inspection Agency he has led development of genomics tooling like Virtool, mentored 20+ students and engineers, and maintained legacy systems while modernizing deployments. He also brings hands-on hardware and networking experience uncommon in software roles, plus graduate-level training in molecular biology that keeps his work tightly aligned with lab workflows and high-throughput sequencing realities.
9 years of coding experience
MSc, Biology, MSc, Biology at University of Victoria
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Github Skills (39)
genome10
next-generation-sequencing10
infection10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
diagnostics10
command-line-interface9
python9
vcenter9
react9
frontend9
artemis8
cli8
browser8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
igboyes/igboyes.com
Aug 2019 - May 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
virtool/workflow-build-index
Nov 2020 - Jul 2024
A workflow for building Virtool reference indexes
Contributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 34 PRs in 3 years 8 months
indexesvirtoolworkflow
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