Nicholas Cooley
Developer Engagement Lead at University of Limerick
Limerick, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Cooley is a Developer Engagement Lead and software engineer with eight years of experience building bioinformatics tools and R-based analysis pipelines, focused on microbial genomics and academic software sustainability. He helps junior scientists translate domain expertise into robust, reproducible code and contributions to the Bioconductor ecosystem, designing tooling and workflows that bridge research and software engineering. A PhD-trained chemist who transitioned into computational biology, he combines deep experimental understanding with practical engineering practices to improve how academic projects scale and gain recognition. Based in Limerick, Ireland, he pairs hands-on development with mentorship and community-building, and—unusually for a developer—keeps a notoriously overconfident karaoke habit that speaks to his willingness to try new things.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Molecular Genetics Microbiology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Molecular Genetics Microbiology at The Ohio State UniversityUniversity of Missouri
Github Skills (29)
extend10
singularity10
synchronize10
codemod9
nodejs7
bioconductor7
transition6
proteins5
animation5
evolutionary4
animated4
bioinformatics4
genomics-visualization4
grammar3
meta-analysis3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
npcooley/cvmfs-singularity-sync
Mar 2020 - Jul 2024
Scripts to synchronize Singularity images to a CVMFS repository.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
cvmfssingularitysingularity-imagessynchronize
npcooley/SynContainer
Oct 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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