Lon Blauvelt
Software Engineer at UCSC Genomics Institute
California, United States
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Top SchoolLon Blauvelt is a full-stack Python software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable scientific pipelines and cloud infrastructure across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. As lead developer for Toil at the UCSC Genomics Institute he designs and operates workflow systems that run on thousands of nodes for projects like GA4GH, TOPMed, the NIH Data Commons, and CZI’s Human Cell Atlas. He emphasizes CI/CD and test-driven development, and brings practical expertise in Docker, Git, REST APIs, and Unix tooling. With a formal background in bioengineering and hands-on wetlab experience, he uniquely bridges computational and experimental domains to rapidly prototype and productionize bioinformatics workflows.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Los Angeles City CollegeUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
slurm10
python10
package-management10
terra10
genomics10
computational-biology10
genomics-visualization10
flask10
mesos10
linux10
gridengine10
data-storage10
workflow-description-language10
pipeline10
bioconda10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
DataBiosphere/bdcat-integration-tests
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
This supports integration testing between components for the biodata catalyst grant.
Contributions:29 reviews, 256 commits, 139 PRs in 2 years 10 months
testingcatalystintegration-testingbiodatagrant
DataBiosphere/xsamtools
Aug 2020 - Jul 2022
Lightly modified versions of htslib and bcftools to merge VCF streams.
Contributions:36 reviews, 104 commits, 58 PRs in 1 year 11 months
bcftoolsdeltaoperationstreamsmodified
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