Nils Oberg
Senior Research Programmer at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana-Champaign Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNils Oberg is a Senior Research Programmer with eight years of professional experience building desktop, web, and mobile applications, currently focused on software that uncovers relationships between protein and gene sequences for genetics and medical research. Based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he blends hands-on development across the full software lifecycle with experience in consulting, IT infrastructure, R&D, government, and higher education. Nils has a practical track record of delivering multiple concurrent projects that translate complex biological questions into reliable software tools. Comfortable operating at the intersection of research and production, he brings domain-aware engineering to computational biology workflows. His long-standing ties to the Urbana-Champaign community and academic environment give him a pragmatic perspective on reproducibility and collaboration in research software.
8 years of coding experience
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (14)
torque10
similarity9
sequence9
pipeline8
cytoscape7
cytoscapejs7
network-visualization5
graph-drawing4
python4
enzyme4
php3
automation3
workflow-automation1
sdk1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EnzymeFunctionInitiative/EST
Oct 2017 - Feb 2023
Programs for creating Sequence Similarity Networks and wrappers for pipeline submission on a torque cluster
Contributions:75 reviews, 275 commits, 54 PRs in 5 years 4 months
sequencepipelinesimilaritysimilarity-networksprograms
EnzymeFunctionInitiative/EFITools
Dec 2017 - Dec 2022
Enzyme Function Initiative Tools
Contributions:245 commits, 6 issues in 5 years 1 month
enzymeinitiative
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