Ross Lazarus - Chair, Global Galaxy Steering Commitee And Member, Executive Board. at Between projects

Ross Lazarus

Chair, Global Galaxy Steering Commitee And Member, Executive Board. at Between projects

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Ross Lazarus is a physician-scientist and seasoned bioinformatics leader with four decades of experience spanning clinical medicine, epidemiology, public health and computational biology. As Chair of the Global Galaxy Steering Committee and long-time Galaxy developer, he combines executive stewardship with hands-on full-stack contributions to widely used open-source genomics infrastructure. He has led federally funded research at Harvard and the CDC/NIH, authored 160+ peer-reviewed papers, and built tooling that bridges R/Python analytics with reproducible web-based workflows. Comfortable advising on study design for large genomic data and rebuilding deployment pipelines, he is equally at home writing training materials, wrapping bioinformatics tools, or adding UI features to community hubs. Based in Sydney, he brings rare institutional memory—having helped found Galaxy—paired with active code-level participation in today’s distributed research software ecosystem.

16 years of coding experience

16 years of employment as a software developer

GDip Comp Sci, Computer science, GDip Comp Sci, Computer science at RMIT University

The University of Melbourne

MPH, Epidemiology, MPH, Epidemiology at Monash University

Italian

Stackoverflow

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Github Skills (28)

tooling10

javascript10

gridsome10

python10

r10

technical-writing10

front-end-development10

bioinformatics10

galaxy10

wrapper10

vue-jsx10

documentation10

bootstrap-vue9

html9

Programming languages (12)

TypeScriptShellRC++JinjaCTeXScala

Github contributions (5)

galaxyproject/galaxy-hub

Mar 2021 - Feb 2022

Galaxy Community Hub

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:23 reviews, 55 commits, 21 PRs in 11 months

Contributions summary:Ross contributed to the Galaxy Community Hub by integrating new components, including a redirect component to handle legacy URLs and a markdown embed component. They modified the front-end, adding new navigation links and updating the UI elements to include a "Covid19" and "@jxtx" section. Furthermore, the user modified the project's build process.

usegalaxygalaxy

galaxyproject/tools-iuc

Sep 2014 - Nov 2015

Tool Shed repositories maintained by the Intergalactic Utilities Commission

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:85 reviews, 74 commits, 45 PRs in 1 year 1 month

Contributions summary:Ross contributed to the development of tools related to bioinformatics within the Galaxy project. They focused on creating wrappers for bioinformatics tools, including R glasso, differential count models with edgeR/DESeq2/voom, and htseq. Additionally, the user addressed issues with the data managers and improved the tool factory for creating and deploying tools. These changes involved modifying both Python and R scripts.

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