Kenneth Durbrow
Software Engineer at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Durbrow is a seasoned software engineer with four decades of programming experience and over a decade at NCBI leading work on the SRA Toolkit that manages the NIH Sequence Read Archive, a petabyte-scale genomic database. He brings deep expertise in systems analysis, software design, encryption, and database migrations—having worked from CP/M and dBase to modern Windows and MS SQL Server environments. Kenneth excels at integrating disparate systems and migrating data between incompatible platforms, skills honed through consulting roles that covered specifications, procurement, networking, and end-to-end application development. As a hands-on back-end developer and team lead, he has contributed meaningful improvements to the widely used ncbi/sra-tools project, including database schema and logging enhancements. Based in Bethesda, Maryland, he combines institutional-scale engineering with a practical, inquisitive approach and a willingness to mentor teammates.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
American River College
Github Skills (1)
cpp10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ncbi/sra-tools
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
SRA Tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 1351 commits, 110 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth modified the code to use a row ID typedef and also updated the code that writes information into a database including changes to file names, structure of data, logging and formatting. They also added more data to the columns.
sra
durbrow/fix-double-utf8.swift
Jul 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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