David Arndt
Bioinformatician
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolDavid Arndt is a bioinformatician with 11+ years of experience building high-throughput web applications and data resources for metabolomics, metagenomics, cheminformatics, and structural biology. Based in Edmonton, he has been a principal developer on flagship projects like The Human Metabolome Database, PHASTER (handling ~60,000 submissions/month), METAGENassist, and Heatmapper, blending full-stack Ruby on Rails and Shiny web development with RDKit/Python cheminformatics and MySQL-backed data curation. He also manages large-scale bioinformatics infrastructure (70+ servers, 110+ services) and has optimized HPC workflows to triple throughput for genome-scale analyses. With 21 peer-reviewed publications and broad programming fluency (Ruby, R, Python, C, Perl, Java, Fortran, Bash), he translates complex biological data into scalable, reproducible tools and databases. An uncommon strength is his cross-disciplinary training—computer science, molecular genetics and theology—which informs his collaborative leadership and long-term stewardship of scientific resources.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of AlbertaMaster of Arts - MA, Theology/Theological Studies, Master of Arts - MA, Theology/Theological Studies at Regent CollegeTheology/Theological Studies, Theology/Theological Studies at Taylor College and Seminary
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
python-modules7
ruby-on-rails6
dockerfile6
docker6
shiny6
migration6
yum6
postgresql6
r6
leaf5
specification4
tushare4
exchange3
gui-automation3
ruby2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
WishartLab/heatmapper
Oct 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:109 commits, 84 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 6 months
NMRExchangeFormat/NEF
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
NMR Exchange Format official specification
Contributions:2 comments, 3 issues in 1 year 7 months
exchangenmrspecificationtushareleaf
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