Marcus Fedarko
Postdoctoral Associate
College Park, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolMarcus Fedarko is a computational biologist and software engineer with 12 years of experience building visualization and metagenome assembly tools for high-throughput microbiome sequencing. Currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Maryland after a PhD in Computer Science from UC San Diego, he blends rigorous algorithmic research with hands-on software development and teaching across bioinformatics courses. His work spans interactive visualization, graph-based variant detection, and metagenomic assembly—skills honed through research roles, course assistance at the Marine Biological Laboratory, and internships focused on UI for complex models. Marcus regularly bridges research and education, having taught molecular sequence analysis and advanced bioinformatics labs while developing tools used in classroom and workshop settings. Colleagues value his knack for turning dense biological data into intuitive interfaces and tutorials, and he brings a rare combination of lab-level domain knowledge and production-oriented software craftsmanship.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoB.S. with High Honors Computer Science, B.S. with High Honors Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (141)
graph-algorithms10
ecology10
nmf10
taxonomy10
python10
vega10
package-management10
network-analysis10
forge10
structural-variation10
genomes10
microbiome10
graph-visualization10
genome-assembly10
genomics10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fedarko/pyfastg
Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
A minimal Python library for parsing SPAdes FASTG files
Contributions:3 releases, 108 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 9 months
python-librarynetworkxpythonspadesgenome-assembly
fedarko/wotplot
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Small Python library for creating and visualizing dot plot matrices
Contributions:4 releases, 6 PRs, 209 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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