Nicolas De Jay
Computational Biologist
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolNicolas De Jay is a computational biologist and data scientist in Montreal with 13 years of experience translating multi-omics data into actionable insights for early drug discovery and biomarker design. He blends deep domain expertise in cancer epigenetics and NGS with hands-on software engineering, having built R/Bioconductor packages, high-throughput pipelines that processed 1,400+ samples, and internal tools to streamline omics analysis at Bristol Myers Squibb. As a consultant he also architects and deploys bare-metal HPC clusters for research groups, supporting production environments for 50+ users and improving storage, security, and reproducibility. His academic work produced 20+ publications on pediatric brain tumors and resulted in practical tooling (raptor, ripe, CopyNumber450K) that bridged research and clinical workflows. Known for making complex analyses accessible via interactive visualizations and packaged workflows, he combines rigorous research instincts with pragmatic infrastructure automation.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
DEC Health Sciences, DEC Health Sciences at Collège Jean-de-BrébeufBachelor of Science (BSc) Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Bioinformatics at Université de MontréalDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Human Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Human Genetics at McGill University
English, French, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
444reputation
18kreached
7answers
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Github Skills (36)
relevance10
feature-selection10
redundancy10
torque9
minimum9
vagrant9
automation8
ruby8
virtualization8
middleware8
ansible7
pipeline7
docker7
openmp6
vim6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ndejay/ripe
Jan 2014 - Feb 2019
Middleware for your MOAB/Torque stack and pipeline
Contributions:3 releases, 132 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 1 month
middlewaretorquemoabpipeline
ndejay/dotfiles
May 2014 - Dec 2022
Contributions:238 commits, 206 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 9 months
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