Marco Tangaro
Researcher at Italian National Research council, Italy
Apulia, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMarco Tangaro is a researcher and software engineer with a decade of experience bridging academic bioenergetics and production-grade backend development. Based in Apulia, Italy, he combines a strong physics background (Laurea Specialistica with honors) and postdoctoral research with hands-on contributions to high-profile open-source infrastructure like the Galaxy project, where he improved the Chronos job runner for more robust containerized job execution. At the Italian National Research Council and Istituto di Biomembrane he translates complex scientific workflows into scalable computational solutions, prioritizing code quality and maintainability. Comfortable in both research labs and open-source collaborations, he brings a rare mix of domain science knowledge and practical systems engineering to bioinformatics platforms.
10 years of coding experience
Laurea Specialistica in Fisica, Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, 110/110 e lode, Laurea Specialistica in Fisica, Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, 110/110 e lode at Università degli Studi di Bari
Github Skills (6)
galaxy10
workflow-engine10
python10
dockers9
docker9
bioinformatics8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/galaxy
Jun 2017 - Jun 2024
Data intensive science for everyone.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 4 comments in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Marco focused on refactoring and improving the Chronos job runner within the Galaxy project. Their commits include modifications to the `chronos.py` file, implementing changes to how job volumes are handled and integrating environment variables for Docker containers. These changes likely aimed at improving job execution within the Chronos environment, potentially enhancing the scalability and performance of the Galaxy workflow engine. The user also addressed Python linting issues, ensuring code quality and maintainability.
pythonsciencepipelinednadata-science
usegalaxy-it/infrastructure-playbook
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Infrastructure playbook to manage Usegalaxy.it
Contributions:1 release, 13 PRs, 128 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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