Timothy Mcphillips
Senior Research Scientist at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolTimothy Mcphillips is a Senior Research Scientist with 13 years of experience designing and implementing reproducible, provenance-aware scientific workflows and data systems. Based in Oakland, he builds tools that automate data acquisition, cleaning, and analysis—bridging natural and social sciences with software engineering and computer science. His work includes developing the YesWorkflow toolkit to expose dataflow in scripts, designing a workflow language and engine for biodiversity curation, and migrating complex research platforms to containerized, maintainable architectures. He has a track record of turning research prototypes into deployable services—leading DevOps-oriented transitions, Dockerized microservices, and cloud deployments for NSF-funded projects. A Caltech PhD chemist by training, he pairs deep domain knowledge in experimental science with decades of hands-on systems and workflow engineering.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Chemistry, Bachelor's Degree Chemistry at California State University, NorthridgeCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (41)
zenodo10
doi10
biodiversity10
ref8
validation8
uic8
cgi8
data-validation7
euler7
taxonomies7
vimeo6
logic6
python6
mp45
derived5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
whole-tale/reproducibility-components
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
Models and queries of scientific reproducibility
Contributions:4 PRs, 80 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
reproducibilityscientific-reproducibilityqueriesscientific
CIRSS/blaze
Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:10 releases, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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