Joel Armstrong
Senior Associate Scientist
Village of Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Armstrong is a biopharma-focused scientist with 14 years of practical experience bridging protein characterization and computational bioinformatics. Currently a Senior Associate Scientist at Regeneron, he develops and validates biophysical methods for therapeutic proteins and gene therapy candidates supporting regulatory submissions. He pairs hands-on lab expertise (CD, SEC, DSC, DLS, iCIEF and more) with a strong computational bent demonstrated by meaningful open-source contributions to projects like Toil and the Cactus genome aligner. His Toil work added robust Azure support, client-side encryption, and autoscaling fixes—skills that reflect an ability to improve reliability in cloud-backed bioinformatics workflows. Comfortable working across upstream and downstream teams, he brings a rare combination of wet-lab rigor and back-end/DevOps engineering to translational research. Based in Dobbs Ferry, NY, he leverages this hybrid skill set to accelerate biologics development from assays to scalable computational pipelines.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Biotechnology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Biotechnology at Vellore Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Biotechnology, Master of Science - MS Biotechnology at Northeastern UniversityAll India Senior School Certificate Examination PCMB, All India Senior School Certificate Examination PCMB at Rajagiri Christu Jayanthi Public School
English, Malayalam, Hindi, Japanese
Github Skills (18)
algorithm10
algorithms10
biom10
python10
workflow-engine10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
implement10
infrastructure10
bioinformatics10
azure10
pipeline9
devops9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DataBiosphere/toil
Aug 2015 - Jan 2019
A scalable, efficient, cross-platform (Linux/macOS) and easy-to-use workflow engine in pure Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:146 commits, 61 PRs, 61 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Joel contributed to the Azure job store implementation within the Toil workflow engine, including file storage, job management, and Azure Table Service integration. Their work involved making the Azure job chunk size configurable, adding retries for various Azure operations, and incorporating client-side encryption for file storage. Furthermore, the user addressed several bugs and enhancements related to autoscaling, service jobs, and checkpointing within the Toil framework, resolving existing issues and improving overall functionality.
pythoncommon-workflow-languagemesosawsslurm
joelarmstrong/analysis-purgatory
Apr 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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