Kevin Keegan
Independent Scientist at Self employed
Glen Ellyn, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Keegan is an independent computational biologist with a PhD and 14 years of experience building scalable bioinformatics pipelines and cloud-native tools using R, Python, AWS, and Docker. He has led interdisciplinary projects at institutions including the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, translating large-scale genomic and metagenomic datasets into actionable insights and visualization platforms. His work spans research, tool development (including contributions to MG-RAST and KBase integrations), and mentoring scientists to adopt computational methods. Based in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, he manages multiple simultaneous client and research projects as a self-employed scientist, emphasizing reproducible, efficient data processing. Uncommonly for a computational biologist, he combines deep wet-lab experience from his PhD and early technician roles with sustained software engineering practice, producing practical tools still used by research labs.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Boston College High School (BC High)PhD Biology/ Biochemistry/ Biotech, PhD Biology/ Biochemistry/ Biotech at Northwestern UniversityBA in Classics and Biology with High Honors in Classics, BA in Classics and Biology with High Honors in Classics at Brandeis University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
duplicate10
qbcore-framework10
rna-seq10
sequencing9
bioinformatics9
genomics9
api8
pipeline7
metagenomics7
64-bit6
backend6
combinations6
android6
extend6
python6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MG-RAST/DRISEE
Oct 2011 - May 2014
duplicate read inferred sequencing error estimator
Contributions:139 commits in 2 years 6 months
duplicatepipelineqbcore-frameworksequencinggenomics
DrOppenheimer/Kevin_shell_scripts
Dec 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:249 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 3 months
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