Marcel Ribeiro-dantas
Senior Developer Advocate
Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
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Top SchoolMarcel Ribeiro-dantas is a Senior Developer Advocate with 12 years of experience bridging bioinformatics research and developer communities across Latin America and the Caribbean. With a PhD from Sorbonne and an MS in Bioinformatics, he combines deep expertise in causal inference, patient monitoring systems, and hospital automation with practical software skills in Nextflow, R, and pipeline engineering. At Seqera Labs he grows the Nextflow/nf-core ecosystem—running mentorship and ambassador programs and improving documentation and training to lower barriers to reproducible science. His research record includes NeurIPS publications on causal discovery and contributions to MIIC and clinical data platforms, reflecting a rare mix of rigorous causal research and production-grade tooling. Active in open source, he’s improved Nextflow internals, training materials and UX on nf-core and added practical CLI features to popular projects like withfig/autocomplete. Colleagues know him for turning complex biomedical problems into reproducible, community-driven pipeline solutions.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Federal University of Rio Grande do NorteDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Sorbonne University
Portuguese, English, Italian, German, Russian, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
website-development10
dsl10
command-line-interface10
autocomplete10
typescript10
workflow-engine10
nextflow10
workflow-automation10
typescript-types10
pipeline10
html10
argo-workflows10
typescripts10
nf-core10
documentation10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
nextflow-io/training
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Nextflow training material
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:268 reviews, 73 commits, 234 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Marcel primarily contributed to improving the functionality and maintainability of Nextflow pipelines, which involves both backend and development. They corrected English, fixed Nextflow errors and updated DSL1 -> DSL2 translation, and ensured channels were properly collected in the scripts. They also updated deprecated qualifiers, and cleaned up the code by removing trailing white spaces from the scripts, leading to better overall code quality.
nextflowtrainingtraining-materialworkflowpipelines
nf-core/website
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Code and files for the main nf-core website.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 77 commits, 98 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Marcel primarily focused on updating and improving the nf-core website's user interface and links. They updated website links related to Nextflow resources, ensuring they pointed to current Slack and discussion forum URLs. The user also added "run with" buttons to pipeline pages, providing users with instructions on how to execute nf-core pipelines using different tools. Further UI improvements included adding a Microsoft Azure icon to the footer, enhancing the website's branding and contributor recognition.
nf-corenextflow
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