Matthew Ralston
Principal Consultant at Freelance
Newark, Delaware, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Ralston is a Principal Consultant and bioinformatician with 12 years of experience building production genomics pipelines, AWS cloud infrastructure, and scalable bioinformatics tooling for both human and microbial genomics. He blends wet-lab insight in metabolism and colon cancer with strong software engineering—Python/Node, Docker, CloudFormation, and CLI/API development—to bridge data generation and analysis. At BMS he scaled NGS automation, Galaxy integrations, and multi-million-record data systems; more recently he architected AWS-native microbial genomics pipelines and now develops an Apache-licensed k-mer spectra database as a freelance consultant. Trained in biochemistry, biomathematics, and data science, he brings a rare mix of experimental, computational, and product-focused skills, plus a penchant for generalist tinkering evident in side projects and open-source work.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Biochemistry, B.Sc., Biochemistry at University of Delaware
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (200)
libgit210
testing10
cvs10
data-science10
mercurial10
python10
mailing-list10
pipeline10
git-addons10
workflow-engine10
tdd10
git-client10
publish10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
MatthewRalston/Template_scripts
Jan 2016 - Jan 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 8 years 1 month
MatthewRalston/dotfiles
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
A collection of configs, dotfiles, etc. Copy only what you need. Should work across multiple target platforms.
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
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