Russ Hyde
Data Scientist
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarRuss Hyde is a data scientist based in Manchester with eight years' experience translating messy biological and experimental data into reliable insights. At Jumping Rivers he combines practical data engineering with statistical modelling, drawing on a background in bioinformatics to tackle domain-specific challenges. He is an active open-source contributor, notably improving the r-lib/lintr project by fixing R Markdown parsing, pipeline handling and expanding test coverage to make R code analysis more robust. Comfortable in R and Python, he balances tooling and QA work with exploratory analysis and network-focused questions. Colleagues know him for pragmatic refactors that reduce tech debt and for turning tricky parsing edge-cases into maintainable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (14)
linter10
rmarkdown10
code-analysis10
r10
testing10
system6
knitr6
shell6
conda6
ggplot6
snakemake6
python6
regex6
git5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
r-lib/lintr
Sep 2018 - Jun 2021
Static Code Analysis for R
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:45 reviews, 33 commits, 46 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Russ primarily contributed to improving the `lintr` library by addressing bugs related to R Markdown parsing and pipeline continuation. Their work included implementing fixes for the handling of code blocks within R Markdown files, which involved modifying the extraction of R source code and adding tests to ensure correct behavior. Additionally, the user updated the linter to handle nested expressions in pipelines and improved test coverage for various linting rules, ensuring the library's robustness. The user also refactored code for maintainability and enhanced the library's ability to function correctly on R-3.6 and R-devel.
linterstatic-code-analysiscode-analysisr
jumpingrivers/tfpscanner
Sep 2022 - Oct 2024
Transmission fitness polymorphism scanner
Contributions:29 reviews, 42 PRs, 62 pushes in 2 years 1 month
polymorphismfitnessscannertransmission
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