Sylvain Foisy
Project Manager And Team Leader at Cegep du Vieux-Montreal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolSylvain Foisy is a seasoned bioinformatics and IT leader with 20 years’ experience building HPC clusters, managing lab IT, and delivering custom analysis pipelines for academic and small biopharma teams. As Project Manager and Team Leader at the Montreal Heart Institute he combines hands-on scripting and LIMS development (Scripto) with user training and support to accelerate genomics research. He founded Diploide and previously led BioneQ, creating Quebec’s first bioinformatics HPC and running large-scale workshops, showing a rare blend of technical depth and community-focused service. A longtime instructor, he brings classroom-tested pedagogy to complex technical problems and still returns to bench research—running gene expression and signal transduction studies—so his solutions stay grounded in real biology.
20 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Minor, Applied Computer Sciences, Minor, Applied Computer Sciences at Université de MontréalDEC, Sciences de la nature, DEC, Sciences de la nature at CEGEP de Saint-LaurentDES, DES at ESSS
French, English
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Github Skills (42)
java10
biojava10
vpn-client8
ssh-tunnel7
gitweb7
strongswan7
security7
ansible7
vpn-server7
encryption7
cgit7
ipsec6
wireguard6
vpn6
svn6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
biojava/biojava.github.io
Feb 2006 - Feb 2011
The code for the new BioJava homepage.
Contributions:2210 commits in 5 years 1 month
javabiojava
foisys/impilo-ansible
Aug 2022 - Jun 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 5 branches in 10 months
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