Travis Blimkie
Bioinformatician
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTravis Blimkie is a bioinformatician with nine years of experience turning high-dimensional omics and demographic data into actionable insights for public health and clinical research. With a Master’s in Bioinformatics and an Honours degree in Biochemistry, he bridges wet-lab know-how and software development—building and maintaining three globally used R/Shiny apps and contributing to Bioconductor. His work spans pathogen genomics, neonatal sepsis research in low- and middle-income settings, and streamlining high-throughput sequencing QC and submission pipelines. Known for clear scientific communication and mentoring junior staff, he combines rigorous statistical analysis with pragmatic tooling to accelerate reproducible research. A less obvious strength is his background in census surveying and large-scale lab operations, which informs his attention to data provenance and operational robustness.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Bioinformatics, Graduate, Masters, Bioinformatics, Graduate at University of GuelphHigh School, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, High School, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at St. Joseph's Catholic High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Honours Biochemistry, Bachelor’s Degree, Honours Biochemistry at University of Waterloo
English
Github Skills (36)
r9
shiny9
bioinformatics9
computational-biology8
database8
visualization7
package7
utility7
microbial-genomics7
data-visualization7
core-package6
ppi6
genomics6
orange6
igraph6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
travis-m-blimkie/HumanIDConverter
Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
Shiny app that converts human gene IDs to different types using BioMart data.
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 4 months
shiny-appshinyidsgenebiomart
hancockinformatics/ABCindex
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
A web app to calculate Anti-Biofilm Combination Index (ABCI)
Contributions:4 releases, 87 PRs, 216 pushes in 1 year 3 months
assaybiofilmbioinformaticsrshiny
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