Nicolas Fernandez
Senior Computational Scientist I
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Fernandez is a Senior Computational Scientist with 11 years of experience applying multi-omics, single-cell, and spatial biology methods to decipher disease pathways and build interactive visualizations. Based in Cambridge, MA, he develops production-grade data analysis tools and WebGL-accelerated visualizations for the Jupyter ecosystem, blending algorithm development with practical software engineering. His work spans academia and industry—from creating Clustergrammer and KEA2 during a postdoc to leading computational biology at Vizgen and now the Broad Institute—demonstrating a track record of shipping shareable, high-impact bioinformatics apps. An active contributor to community projects like ipywidgets documentation, he prioritizes usability and clear explanations so complex single-cell workflows are accessible to researchers.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Albert Einstein College of MedicineEinstein College of MedicineUniversity of Texas at San Antonio
Github Skills (5)
ipywidgets10
jupyter-notebook10
rs10
documentation10
jupyterlab-extension9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Interactive Widgets for the Jupyter Notebook
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 41 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Nicolas's contributions primarily focused on documentation updates for the ipywidgets library, a project involving interactive widgets for Jupyter Notebooks. These changes included grammatical and spelling corrections, as well as formatting improvements within existing documentation files, specifically within the "Widget Low Level" and "Widget Custom" example notebooks. The user's work ensures clearer and more accessible explanations of core concepts related to the ipywidgets library. This work contributes to the project's usability and comprehensibility for developers.
jupyter-notebookjupyterlab-extensionjupyter-notebooks
MaayanLab/KEA2
Dec 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:8 commits in 10 months
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