Pedro Feijão
Research Programmer at Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre
Canada
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Top SchoolPedro Feijão is a research programmer and computational biologist with over a decade of experience applying algorithm development, bioinformatics and data science to cancer genomics and pathogen genomics. He has led design and deployment of end-to-end variant calling pipelines in clinical and cloud environments using Nextflow, containerization, and cluster schedulers, and has a track record of turning research algorithms into validated production workflows. His work includes optimizing targeted PCR panel design via integer linear programming to reduce DNA input and building ML-enabled dashboards and logging systems to bridge lab and software teams. With a PhD in bioinformatics and a background in applied mathematics, he combines rigorous computational methods with practical pipeline engineering and a knack for mentoring students and cross-functional collaborators.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD on Computer Science, Bioinformatics, PhD on Computer Science, Bioinformatics at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
English, Portuguese, Spanish, German
Stackoverflow
91reputation
3kreached
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Github Skills (9)
infectious-diseases10
sequencing10
pipeline8
conflict6
database6
django6
criterion1
next-generation-sequencing1
bioinformatics1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pedrofeijao/RINGO
Jul 2016 - Nov 2017
Ancestral gene order reconstruction with IG (intermediate genomes).
Contributions:190 commits, 2 PRs, 136 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pedrofeijao/SpaceGame
Aug 2023 - Sep 2023
Space shooter with pygame.
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 14 days
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