Matthew Dunlap
Research Systems Architect at UNC Health
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Dunlap is a Research Systems Architect with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-based trusted research environments and reproducible science platforms. He combines back-end engineering chops—demonstrated by substantive contributions to the widely used open-source Dataverse repository—with full-stack development of tools that help researchers validate and publish high-quality data. At UNC Health and previously at the Odum Institute, he has focused on secure, production-ready data pipelines and API-driven file management for sensitive medical and social-science datasets. His background in identity and access management and a Master’s in Human–Computer Interaction give him a user-centered approach to complex infrastructure problems. Colleagues rely on him to bridge research requirements and scalable engineering, turning provenance and reproducibility needs into auditable systems. Based in Chapel Hill, he brings an uncommon mix of academic research empathy and pragmatic software delivery to the healthcare research space.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Human Computer Interaction, Master's degree, Human Computer Interaction at University of CalgaryBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Cum Laude at Christopher Newport University
English
Github Skills (8)
javas10
rest-api10
api10
apidoc10
java10
testing9
sql9
database-design8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
IQSS/dataverse
Jul 2017 - Apr 2019
Open source research data repository software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:604 commits, 53 PRs, 579 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily worked on back-end development tasks, modifying and adding core functionality to the Dataverse system. Their commits focused on version upgrades, documentation updates and improvements, and enhancements to the API, including changes to the Provenance system and the file management system. This included adding the ability to get and set metadata about a file, adding a parameter to set the type of a file when adding a file via the API, and adding multiple functions related to file download. This user appears to have worked on a wide variety of tasks, including tasks associated with a complex framework, and worked towards production.
data-repository
uncch-rdmc/dataverse-corere
Jan 2020 - Jul 2023
Open-source web application for running/curating publication data/code via role-based workflows.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 93 PRs in 3 years 6 months
role-basedweb-applicationdata-publicationroleworkflows
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