Tom Schoonjans
Senior Software Engineer at Genomics
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Schoonjans is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience bridging scientific research and production software, currently building tooling at Genomics PLC from his base in Oxford. Trained as an X-ray spectroscopist with a Doctor of Science in Analytical Chemistry, he has spent his career turning domain expertise into robust scientific software in C/C++, Fortran, Java and Python, and has deep experience with Linux, HPC, DevOps, Anaconda, and cloud platforms (AWS and OpenStack). He is a long-standing open-source maintainer and contributor—active in Homebrew and Conda-Forge—who has migrated packages, improved macOS GTK support, and patched complex build issues to keep ecosystems healthy. At research institutions he designed reproducible data pipelines, automated deployments with Ansible, and authored an open-source file-monitoring app to trigger processing on Ceph/AWS storage. Colleagues rely on him for packaging, CI/CD and environment management that scale from desktops to HPC clusters, and he frequently speaks and publishes on both software and X-ray fluorescence theory. Notably, his work enables scientists to reuse mainstream tooling (Anaconda, Singularity, Homebrew) rather than reinventing interfaces, accelerating research delivery.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Science: Chemistry Analytical Chemistry: X-ray fluorescence, Doctor of Science: Chemistry Analytical Chemistry: X-ray fluorescence at Ghent UniversitySecondary school level Science and Mathematics, Secondary school level Science and Mathematics at Sint-Niklaasinstituut Anderlecht
Dutch, English, French
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Github Skills (23)
objective-c10
package-management10
patch10
windows10
build-system10
cmake10
c1110
ruby10
c1710
glib10
homebrew10
gtk10
front-end-development10
automated-build10
macos10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/formula-patches
Aug 2016 - Mar 2021
🏥 Patches for Homebrew formulae
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 29 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed patches to Homebrew formulae, focusing on updating dependencies and fixing build issues. Their commits included modifying configuration files and source code to ensure compatibility with newer versions of libraries like `gsl`, `glib`, and `gtkmm3`, and also adjusting the build process for CMake. The user's work aimed to maintain the functionality and buildability of various software packages within the Homebrew ecosystem. This involved understanding and adapting to changes in dependencies and build tools.
formulaehomebrewpatcheshomebrew-formulae
GNOME/gtk
Jul 2015 - Jun 2021
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Tom primarily worked on enhancing the GTK library's macOS (Quartz) backend, adding support for GTK+4 compatibility. They refactored existing code and added necessary classes, while also implementing file chooser functionality for macOS, including features such as file filters, extra widgets, and support for different actions. Additionally, the user fixed compilation issues and restored parent focus after closing dialogs.
pygobjectgnome-shell-extensiongtk-rsgnomegitlab
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