Nathan Roach
Software Developer at Bio-Rad Laboratories
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Roach is a software developer and bioinformatics scientist with 11 years of experience applying high-performance computational tools to biological problems, from biomechanics to transcriptomics. He earned a PhD in Biology from Johns Hopkins and holds dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Biology from UNC Chapel Hill, blending rigorous wet-lab collaboration with strong software engineering. Nathan built and maintained bioinformatics pipelines in Python, Bash, and R, pioneered direct RNA-seq analyses using Oxford Nanopore data for C. elegans (work now in press at Genome Research), and contributed back-end improvements to the widely used Galaxy Project toolset. At Bio-Rad he progressed from Software Developer III to IV, and previously delivered production-grade bioinformatics tooling at Fulcrum Genomics and GalaxyWorks. He is known for turning cutting-edge sequencing methods into reproducible, performant software and for bridging experimental design with computational strategy. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he combines academic depth with industry delivery and a knack for improving community open-source tools.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (8)
bioinformatics10
tooling10
python10
vcf-files10
data-analysis9
scipy-stats8
scipy8
git3
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/tools-iuc
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Tool Shed repositories maintained by the Intergalactic Utilities Commission
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 18 commits, 18 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on improving and maintaining tools related to bioinformatics and data analysis, specifically within the context of the Galaxy Project's tool shed. Their work involved fixing bugs in existing annotation scripts written in Python, improving allele frequency calculations and modifying VCF files. Additionally, the user contributed a new tool for calculating homopolymer run lengths and updated the associated tests.
intergalacticrepositoriesusegalaxywrapperscommission
NatPRoach/conduit
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
CONDUIT - CONsensus Decomposition Utility In Transcriptome-assembly
Contributions:3 releases, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 11 months
decompositionconsensusconduittranscriptometranscriptome-assembly
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