Maxwell Douglas
Graduate Student
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxwell Douglas is a computational biologist and PhD candidate in bioinformatics at UBC with nine years of experience applying software engineering, statistics, and high-throughput pipelines to cancer research. He has driven multi-omics projects at BC Cancer—building SLURM-based cluster pipelines, working with Azure cloud resources, and analyzing diverse data types from scRNA-seq to whole-genome sequencing for gynecologic oncology. Comfortable at the intersection of research and production, he consults with lab teams, mentors staff, and has experience hiring and training users to scale reproducible analyses. Earlier work spans deep sequencing, phage-display assay optimization, and even cybersecurity analytics, reflecting a practical appetite for diverse problem domains. Based in New Westminster, BC, he pairs rigorous computational skills with project management training to translate complex biological questions into robust, automatable workflows.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Specialization Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Specialization Computer Science at University of AlbertaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at The University of British ColumbiaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at St. George's School
English, French
Github Skills (13)
web-development-project6
bioinformatics6
tsne5
nextflow3
pipeline2
aws2
open-science2
single-cell-genomics2
web-development2
python2
rna-seq2
genomics1
nf-core1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Huntsmanlab/utanos
Feb 2024 - May 2025
Utilities for doing analysis on shallow WGS data
Contributions:16 reviews, 21 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year 3 months
genomaxx/genomaxx.github.io
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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