Paul Madden
Software Engineer at University of Colorado Boulder
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Madden is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building full-stack solutions for scientific computing and high-performance environments. He has progressed through engineering and leadership roles at NOAA, NSIDC, Spire, and now the University of Colorado Boulder, blending hands-on development with systems-level thinking. His work includes automation, testing frameworks, and parallelization tools for HPC codes, plus cloud-focused engineering at Spire where he rose to Principal Software Engineer. An attentive technical writer in open source, he has improved clarity and usability in the widely used Nextflow pipeline DSL documentation. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with a BA in History, bringing both technical depth and a strong aptitude for clear communication. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex scientific requirements into robust, maintainable software and documentation.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Dutch
Github Skills (3)
nextflow10
documentation10
groovy4
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
nextflow-io/nextflow
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
A DSL for data-driven computational pipelines
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 12 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions primarily focus on documentation updates within the Nextflow repository. They corrected typos, fixed hyperlinks, and improved the formatting of the documentation files. The user also updated table headers and refined the descriptions of method options, enhancing the clarity and accuracy of the documentation. These edits improved the readability and usability of the Nextflow scripting language documentation.
singularity-containersbioinformaticsawsdataflowslurm
maddenp/treetop
Oct 2015 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
dslrubyparsingexpression-parsinggrammars
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