Nicholas Youngblut
Data Engineer
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Youngblut is a data engineer and computational biologist with 12 years of experience translating microbiology and evolutionary biology into robust data-driven solutions. Currently at Arc Institute in Redwood City, he has led research groups at the Max Planck Institute and built live biotherapeutic analytics at Federation Bio, bridging wet-lab microbiome science with scalable bioinformatics pipelines. He contributes to Bioconda by packaging bioinformatics tools and refining build scripts, reflecting a practical focus on reproducible, deployable tooling for the community. With a PhD in Microbiology and postgraduate training in soil microbiology, he combines deep domain expertise in host-associated microbes with production engineering skills to turn complex sequencing and cultivation data into actionable insights. An uncommon strength is his experience coordinating anaerobic cultivation workflows alongside next‑generation sequencing, enabling end-to-end experimental and computational integration.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biology, General, Bachelor's degree, Biology, General at Western Illinois UniversityPostgraduate Degree, Soil Microbiology, Postgraduate Degree, Soil Microbiology at Cornell UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology, General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology, General at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (8)
bioinformatics10
bash10
conda10
package-management10
r9
build-script9
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
May 2018 - Dec 2022
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 44 commits, 76 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the development of conda recipes for the bioconda channel. They added new recipes for various bioinformatics tools and R packages, focusing on the creation and modification of build scripts and meta.yaml files. Their work involved adapting existing build processes, fixing linting errors, and ensuring the correct installation of dependencies for each package. The user also made changes to the `post-link.sh` and `pre-unlink.sh` scripts.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
leylabmpi/RTecanFluentShiny
Aug 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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