Kieran O'neill
Bioinformatics Staff Scientist (Process Development Coordinator)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolKieran O'neill is a Bioinformatics Staff Scientist and Process Development Coordinator with 11 years of experience building production-scale sequencing analysis at one of Canada’s largest genome centres. He specializes in evaluating and onboarding new sequencing technologies—particularly long-read platforms—and translating prototypes into robust clinical and ecological workflows used for personalized oncogenomics, genetic disease, and de novo assembly. With a strong academic foundation (PhD in Bioinformatics) and broad hands-on experience across bisulfite, ChIP-seq, amplicon, strand-seq, flow cytometry and expression analyses, he also authors open-source R/Bioconductor packages and leverages skills in Python, C/C++ and Java. Deeply familiar with Unix environments, Kieran combines wet-lab collaboration from his postdoc with software and visualization expertise dating back to MSc web tools and an early career in PDF-generating Python applications. He brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to process development and a knack for spotting when emerging sequencing modalities are production-ready rather than just promising.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at The University of British ColumbiaMSc, Computer Science, Cum Laude, MSc, Computer Science, Cum Laude at University of KwaZulu-NatalBSc, Biochemistry, Computer Science, Cum Laude, BSc, Biochemistry, Computer Science, Cum Laude at University of Natal
Afrikaans, Swedish, Dutch, English
Github Skills (187)
python10
structural-variation10
genomics10
r10
data-visualization10
fasta10
bioconda10
aggregate10
pypi10
pathogen10
data-visualisation10
grammar10
fastq10
bioinformatics10
libtorch9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
bcgsc/long_read_pog
Nov 2023 - Sep 2024
Analysis code for a cohort of Nanopore-sequenced tumours.
Contributions:1 release, 11 reviews, 75 PRs in 9 months
oneillkza/R_Workshops
Sep 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
introductorylabrstats
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