Rod Docking
Associate Director, Scientific Data Platform
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRod Docking is an experienced bioinformatician and data scientist with 14 years designing and validating NGS analysis pipelines, now leading scientific data platform efforts at AbCellera. He built and led the team that implemented one of the earliest clinically accredited NGS diagnostic tests at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre and developed an RNA-Seq prognostic test for acute myeloid leukemia during his PhD. Rod combines hands-on engineering (Python, PostgreSQL) with clinical validation and SOP development, bridging research, regulatory requirements, and production deployment. At AbCellera he progressed from data scientist to associate director, scaling data platforms to support antibody discovery workflows. He is passionate about translating complex genomic data into actionable clinical insights and iterating pipelines for tangible patient benefit. Based in Vancouver, he brings rare depth across research, clinical operations, and production-grade data engineering.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Experimental Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Experimental Medicine at The University of British ColumbiaMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Evolutionary Biology, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Evolutionary Biology at McGill University
English
Github Skills (54)
seq10
genome9
sequencing9
genomics9
rna-seq9
bioinformatics8
snakemake8
gitbook7
spark-ml7
latex7
science7
bookdown6
gatk6
unconf6
interpretation6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rdocking/bits_and_bobs
Sep 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
rdocking/fusebench
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 23 PRs, 25 pushes in 24 days
aggregationworkbenchgene-fusionsbioinformaticsinterpretation
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