Thom Cuddihy
Bioinformatics Developer
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolThom Cuddihy is a Bioinformatics Developer based in Brisbane with a decade of experience bridging computational biology and software engineering at The University of Queensland. He has a strong background building APIs and tooling for data-intensive science—contributing backend enhancements to the widely used Galaxy project to improve administrative histories querying. With a Master of Bioinformatics and earlier roles spanning LIMS integration, research assistance, and IT across university faculties, he blends domain knowledge in genomics and lab systems with pragmatic software skills. Colleagues rely on him for reliable backend solutions and incremental improvements that keep complex research infrastructure running smoothly. Though self-deprecating about his artistic talents, he quietly accumulates meaningful open-source contributions and institutional impact.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Bioinformatics, Master of Bioinformatics at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (7)
api10
python10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
bioinformatics9
workflow-engine8
git7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/galaxy
Nov 2019 - Aug 2024
Data intensive science for everyone.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 1 PR, 2 comments in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Thom primarily focused on enhancing the histories API within the Galaxy project. Their contributions involved adding administrative functionality, specifically allowing admins to query all histories. They also made updates to the API to correctly handle the 'all' parameter and addressed a minor typo in a comment. Additionally, the user made minor code style changes.
pythonsciencepipelinednadata-science
Poniverse/Ponyville-Live-Mobile
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 6 comments in 3 days
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