Denis Yuen
Senior Software Developer at Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDenis Yuen is a senior software developer with 14 years of experience building research-oriented and production-grade bioinformatics software, currently leading sequencing-analysis pipeline work at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. He has designed and implemented distributed genomic databases and cloud-native workflow tooling (OpenStack and AWS) that supported large-scale projects like the ICGC/TCGA pan-cancer analysis. His background spans database and machine-learning modules, coordinating prototypes with external teams, and managing testing groups—bridging hands-on engineering with project leadership. Trained in bioinformatics and computer science at the University of Waterloo, he combines deep domain knowledge with a practical focus on architecting scalable analysis platforms and improving reproducible computational workflows.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BMath, Computer Science - Bioinformatics, BMath, Computer Science - Bioinformatics at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (176)
command-line-interface10
swagger10
metadata10
dockstore10
rest-api10
genomics10
avro10
provisioning10
nextflow10
workflow-description-language10
api10
rest10
azure10
scientific-workflow10
science10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
dockstore/dockstore-cli
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Command-line interface to dockstore, split out from main repo in version 1.8.0
Contributions:13 releases, 227 reviews, 79 commits in 3 years 4 months
command-line-interfacedockstore
dockstore/icgc-storage-client-plugin
Feb 2017 - Aug 2024
icgc storage client file provisioning plugin
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 7 months
provisioningbackblazepersistentstorageicgc
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