Tracy Teal
Chief Executive Officer at openRxiv
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTracy Teal is an accomplished data science and open source leader with over two decades of experience building organizations, programs, and tools that scale research and training across academia and industry. She has led mission-driven nonprofits and open source programs—co-founding Data Carpentry, serving as Executive Director of The Carpentries and Dryad, and directing open source strategy at Posit and Nixtla—combining strategic fundraising, community development, and technical stewardship. Her background as a computational biologist and former faculty/research scientist gives her deep domain knowledge in bioinformatics and metagenomics alongside hands-on open source software development (including a widely cited sequencing-error correction tool). Known for inclusive leadership and synthesizing diverse inputs into system-level solutions, she now leads openRxiv as CEO, continuing to bridge research infrastructure, training, and community-driven software.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computation and Neural Systems, PhD, Computation and Neural Systems at California Institute of TechnologyMaster of Arts (M.A.), Organismal Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Master of Arts (M.A.), Organismal Biology, Ecology and Evolution at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (200)
ecology10
metadata10
tidyverse10
ets10
data-cleaning10
alpha10
deepar10
spreadsheet10
quarto10
mothur10
open-access10
stable10
arima10
data-science10
visualization10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Reproducible-Science-Curriculum/introduction-RR-Jupyter
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year
curriculumjupyter-notebooknotebookreproduciblejupyter
tracykteal/tidytuesday
Nov 2022 - Aug 2024
Official repo for the #tidytuesday project
Contributions:99 pushes, 32 branches in 1 year 8 months
tidytuesday
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