Shawn Rynearson
Sr. Scientific Programmer Bioinformatics
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Rynearson is a Senior Scientific Programmer specializing in bioinformatics and genomics with 12 years of experience building reproducible Unix-based pipelines and automation for research and clinical environments. At the University of Utah he designs and maintains Nextflow, Bash, and Python workflows that scale to large genomic datasets (VCF, FASTQ, BAM) and support projects like NeoSeq, the Utah Genome Project, and GA4GH collaborations. He bridges wet-lab needs and software engineering practices, delivering pragmatic solutions for fast-paced labs and clinical variant interpretation. His background includes teaching researchers command-line bioinformatics at Cold Spring Harbor and hands-on genetic research, giving him rare perspective across experiment design, sequencing, and downstream computational tooling. Available for freelance consulting, he focuses on fixing brittle scripts, optimizing workflows, and automating recurring research processes with an emphasis on reproducibility and efficiency.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Github Skills (91)
dataflow10
slurm10
genomics10
ontologies10
reproducible-science10
singularity10
genetic10
nextflow10
pipeline10
genome10
groovy10
dsl10
sequencing10
reproducible-research10
aws10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
srynobio/Salvo
Sep 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:114 commits, 126 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
srynobio/UGPp
Dec 2013 - Jun 2018
Contributions:263 commits, 113 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 7 months
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