Walter Mankowski
Senior Staff Associate
Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWalter Mankowski is a Senior Staff Associate and computer scientist with a PhD and 25 years of experience applying pattern recognition, computer vision, and data engineering to biomedical imaging problems. He has built and productionized microservices, ETL pipelines, and databases (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch) for clinical knowledgebases and molecular sequencing, and now focuses on imaging biomarkers for breast and lung cancer at Columbia. Comfortable across Perl, Python, C++, Matlab and OpenCV, he combines low-level algorithmic work (e.g., cell tracking, canonical behavior discovery) with large-scale data munging and performance tuning. His open-source contributions include numerous Perl solutions to algorithmic challenges, reflecting a long-standing taste for elegant, language-agnostic problem solving. Walter’s career bridges academic research and deployed clinical software, bringing both high-performance engineering and domain-aware insight to biomedical data.
25 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Holy Ghost Preparatory SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Drexel UniversityBA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at University of Pennsylvania
English, German, French, Swedish
Github Skills (7)
algorithms10
perl10
strings9
text-manipulation9
number-theory8
data-structure7
data-structures7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
manwar/perlweeklychallenge-club
Jun 2019 - Aug 2022
Knowledge base for The Weekly Challenge club members using Perl, Raku, Ada, APL, Awk, Bash, BASIC, Bc, Befunge-93, Bourne Shell, BQN, Brainfuck, C3, C, CESIL, C++, C#, Clojure, COBOL, Coconut, Crystal, D, Dart, Dc, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Excel VBA, Fennel, Fish, Forth, Fortran, Gembase, GNAT, Go, Haskell, Haxe, HTML, Idris, IO, J, Janet, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lisp, Lua, M4, Miranda, Modula 3, MMIX, Mumps, Myrddin, Nim, Nix, Node.js, Nuweb, OCaml, Odin, Ook, Pascal, PHP, Python, Postscript, Prolog, R, Ring, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, Sed, Smalltalk, SQL, Swift, Tcl, TypeScript, Visual BASIC, WebAssembly, Wolfram, XSLT and Zig.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:222 commits, 51 PRs, 2 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Walter contributed numerous solutions to challenges within the Perl Weekly Challenge club repository. The contributions primarily involved writing and modifying Perl code to address the specific problem sets outlined in the weekly challenges, focusing on algorithmic problem solving, and demonstrating proficiency in Perl. The user implemented solutions for a range of challenges, including number theory problems, string manipulation, and array processing, demonstrating strong Perl coding skills. The user also occasionally modified and updated existing solutions.
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phillylinux/phillylinux.github.io
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
Philadelphia Linux Users Group website
Contributions:401 commits, 5 PRs, 332 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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