Justin Cook
Database Developer
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Cook is a Database Developer with 10 years of full-stack software experience, specializing in pipeline automation and bioinformatics applications. He combines Java, Python, JavaScript and Perl expertise with hands-on experience across MySQL, Neo4j and MongoDB to turn complex data workflows into reliable production systems. At OICR he led a rewrite of a quarterly data release pipeline—porting Perl to Java and automating it with Jenkins, Docker and AWS—cutting processing time by more than half and directly supporting COVID-19 curation efforts. He mentors students and has led cross-functional teams, shipping data submission and QA tooling as well as image-processing pipelines. Based in Victoria, BC, he pairs a Master of Bioinformatics with practical deployment skills (Ansible, Docker) to bridge research needs and robust engineering.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Bioinformatics (MBinf), Bioinformatics, Master of Bioinformatics (MBinf), Bioinformatics at University of Guelph
English
Github Skills (98)
nodemailer10
genomes10
gmail-api9
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node-sass9
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mailgun9
html-email9
predictor9
radial8
genomics8
rainbow8
bioinformatics8
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
brinkmanlab/IslandCompare
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Pipeline for detecting and annotating genomic islands and relationships between the respective genomes
Contributions:3 reviews, 16 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 6 months
genomespipelinegenomicsbioinformaticsdetecting
reactome/BCC-2020
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Repository containing supplemental files and information for the 'How to use Reactome data, tools and web service' presentation at BCC 2020.
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 1 day
presentationbccreactomedata-toolsweb-service
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