Michael Imelfort
Organiser Lead Organiser at HealthHack
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Imelfort is a mathematically trained software engineer and former scientist with over a decade of hands-on experience building data-driven systems, pipelines and visualization tools across research and commercial settings. He specializes in large-scale data analytics, scientific computing and automation, with deep expertise in Python, Linux administration and cloud-first CI/CD for genomics and mapping workflows. His background spans algorithm development, infrastructure as code and end-to-end pipeline testing—skills honed while building a cloud-native genomics stack using Nextflow, Docker and AWS and managing >100-node Linux clusters. A long-time organiser of Brisbane’s HealthHack, he blends technical delivery with community leadership and an appetite for pragmatic, reproducible engineering in research-style environments. Notably comfortable operating at every layer of the data stack, he’s equally at home optimizing resource usage as designing algorithmic test harnesses for complex pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at The University of QueenslandB.Sc, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, B.Sc, Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Griffith University
Github Skills (36)
file-manipulation10
genome8
genomics8
metagenomics8
bioinformatics8
binning7
reproducible-research7
nextflow7
points6
graph6
elasticsearch-cluster6
reproducible-science6
slurm6
singularity6
pipeline5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
minillinim/outstandingKnife
Mar 2015 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 10 years 2 months
HealthHackAu2015/website-2015
Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
The main website
Contributions:145 commits, 9 PRs, 119 pushes in 3 months
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