Thea Van Rossum
Chief Scientific Officer at Koonkie
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolThea Van Rossum is a Chief Scientific Officer and bioinformatician with a decade of experience translating microbiome research into practical data-driven solutions. With a PhD in Bioinformatics and a career spanning EMBL and industry roles at Koonkie, she combines deep human microbiome expertise with hands-on tool and pipeline development. She has led both research and product-focused teams, moving from postdoctoral tool development to senior and now executive scientific leadership. An active developer, she contributed backend automation to the well-known Mozilla Science studyGroup project, solving real-world issues like Google Calendar timezone handling. Based in Vancouver, she brings a rare blend of academic rigor, software engineering chops, and operational leadership to advance microbiome science into deployable impact.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Biology and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Biology and Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioinformatics at Simon Fraser University
English, French
Github Skills (8)
apim10
api10
python10
oauth10
google-calendar-api10
markdown-it8
markdown8
javascript5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mozillascience/studyGroup
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Gather together a group to skill-share, co-work, and create community
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Thea primarily focused on developing a script to create Google Calendar events from entries in markdown files within the repository. This involved utilizing the Google Calendar API, including authentication and event creation. The user made several revisions, primarily addressing time zone issues and refining the script's functionality.
railsreactsharegatherjavascript
theavanrossum/r-novice-gapminder
Jan 2016 - Sep 2018
Introduction to R for non-programmers using gapminder data.
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 8 months
r-packageintroduction-to-rgapminderrstats
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