Tobin Magle
Lead Data Management Specialist
Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolTobin Magle is a Lead Data Management Specialist with 10 years of experience bridging microbiology research and reproducible data practices at institutions like Northwestern University and UW–Madison. He combines a PhD in Microbiology with practical skills in data curation, R, and Unix to help research teams manage lifecycles, metadata, and compliance while teaching computational best practices. Tobin has a track record of building data workflows and training researchers through library and cyberinfrastructure roles, plus hands-on lab experience in molecular parasitology and protein expression. Known to colleagues as a "data ninja," he pairs grant and manuscript editing experience with an educator’s knack for making complex workflows accessible. He often finds value in reusable public datasets and small tooling improvements that accelerate reproducible research across teams.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Microbiology, PhD, Microbiology at University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.S., Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, B.S., Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Michigan State University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
stable10
knitr10
data-wrangling10
r9
data-visualisation9
automation9
data-visualization9
shell9
unix8
bash8
linux8
ecology8
journal7
google-workspace7
jekyll7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
maglet/uw-r-workshops
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
Workshops taught through Steenbock library on R programming for researchers. Based heavily on the Data Carpentry content.
Contributions:40 commits, 2 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year 11 months
rdata-sciencedata-carpentryr-programmingknitr
maglet/R-custom
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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