Rodrigo Herrera
Scientific Computing Unit at National Laboratory of Sustainability Sciences at UNAM
Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City, Mexico
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Top SchoolRodrigo Herrera is a scientific computing specialist and complexity scientist with 12 years of experience building research-grade software and data pipelines for genomics and sustainability science. He leads the Scientific Computing Unit at UNAM’s National Laboratory of Sustainability Sciences, bridging academic research, policymaking, and applied modeling to inform decisions for sustainability. Previously he ran bioinformatics at the National Institute of Genomic Medicine, designing NGS analysis workflows, and earlier built ETL and network-monitoring systems in industry. A long-time Free Software advocate, he blends deep GNU/Linux and Emacs expertise with pragmatic data-wrangling, model exploration, and systems engineering. Trained as a cybernetics engineer and M.Sc. in Complexity Sciences, he brings both theoretical insight and hands-on coding to tame complex, interdisciplinary problems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc., Complexity Sciences, M. Sc., Complexity Sciences at Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de MéxicoBachelor's degree, Cibernetics, Bachelor's degree, Cibernetics at Universidad La Salle, A.C.
English, Spanish
Github Skills (28)
text-mining10
data-mining9
algorithm8
time-series7
mongodb6
svg6
python6
pymongo5
jquery5
breast-cancer4
fusion4
structural-variation4
php4
orm3
odm3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sostenibilidad-unam/MEGADAPT
Jun 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
rgarcia-herrera/RiboSonic
Jan 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
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