Maxime Garcia
Bioinformatician
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolMaxime Garcia is a bioinformatician with 12 years of experience building reproducible WGS/WES analysis workflows, currently working at SciLifeLab NGI in Stockholm after roles at Karolinska Institutet and Seqera. He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics and Genomics and blends academic rigor with production-grade pipeline engineering, focusing on automation, data integration and visualization. An active nf-core core team member, he has contributed modules for VCF annotation and improved CI/CD, demonstrating deep expertise in Nextflow, pipeline testing and maintainability. Comfortable across full-stack and DevOps tasks, he’s moved between research and infrastructure roles—bringing both hands-on variant analysis know-how and community-facing tooling improvements. Notably, his contributions to nf-core’s website and tools show attention to user experience and robust developer workflows, not just backend pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics and Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics and Genomics at Aix-Marseille University
French, English
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Github Skills (24)
github-ci10
docker10
website-development10
css10
dockers10
vcf-files10
cicd10
nextflow10
workflow-automation10
pipeline10
html10
bioinformatics10
website-design10
githubaction-workflow10
nf-core10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
nf-core/modules
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Repository to host tool-specific module files for the Nextflow DSL2 community!
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:1679 reviews, 155 commits, 689 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Maxime contributed to the development of modules for processing and annotating VCF files, core to bioinformatics workflows. Their commits added modules for key tasks like annotating VCFs using snpEff and ensemblvep, indicating a focus on variant analysis. The user's work involved integrating these annotation tools into subworkflows, streamlining variant analysis pipelines. Contributions showcase expertise in bioinformatics data processing.
nf-corehostnextflow-dsl2nextflowdsl2
nf-core/website
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Code and files for the main nf-core website.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:355 reviews, 135 commits, 187 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Maxime primarily contributed to the website's frontend, fixing broken links, updating text, and correcting typos. They also made changes to the header and components, modifying the display of information. In addition, the user merged in updates from the upstream/master branch multiple times, incorporating various website updates.
nf-corenextflow
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