Steve Trutane
Group Fitness Instructor at Athletic Playground
Albany, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Trutane is a PhD-trained molecular biologist and bioinformatics engineer with 27 years of industry experience building production-grade genomics software, databases, and pipelines for clinical and cancer sequencing applications. He spent over a decade as a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Personalis, where he led genome annotation ETL, variant interpretation tooling, and maintained an extensive technical FAQ wiki supporting field scientists. A long-time open-source contributor and BioPerl core developer, he has a track record of fixing deep library bugs and improving core functionality for widely used genomics tools. Passionate about science communication and standards, he has served on the FGED board, edited Wikipedia since 2008, and runs science- and fitness-focused nonprofit sites and social media outreach. Recently pivoting toward public-facing communication, he also took a sabbatical to teach group fitness (MovNat L2 certified) and currently blends technical depth with hands-on community coaching in Albany, CA.
27 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology, Ph.D. Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology at University of Colorado BoulderB.A. Biology Philosophy, B.A. Biology Philosophy at Macalester College
Github Skills (7)
bioinformatics10
debug10
perl10
develop9
algorithms8
algorithm8
api-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bioperl/bioperl-live
Dec 1998 - Jun 2007
Core BioPerl 1.x code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Bioinformatics Specialist
Back-end Developer & Bioinformatics SpecialistContributions:393 commits in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the BioPerl library by fixing bugs and enhancing specific functionalities within the core BioPerl codebase. Their work involved bug fixes in the Blast package with version updates, and standardizing and correcting method calls to resolve ambiguities. The user also refactored existing functions by adding expanded_string() method and incorporated contributions, improving general function.
bioperlpdb-filesbiologytoolkitbioinformatics
bioperl/Bio-Root
Dec 1998 - Feb 2007
Contributions:37 commits in 8 years 3 months
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