About

I am a Software Developer and Bioinformatician working out of my home from Kingston, Ontario. I joined DNAstack in early 2016 with the vision of building the next generation “Internet of Genomics” by developing standards based tools for data anlaysis, sharing, discovery and authorization. I have since helped manage the development of DNAstack’s core applications in the cloud and lead the internal bioinformatics team.

I am passionate about open source technologies, cloud computing, distributed systems, performant applications and am a vocal advocate of reproducible and open science. For the past four years I have been involved in the GA4GH community and contribute to their open source projects driving the creation of standards for the health and genomics sectors. I also am part of the governance committee of OpenWDL guiding the development of the Workflow Descriptor Language and help evangelize the bioinformatics community to the power of distributed data analysis.

In my spare time, I passionately pursue classical guitar, enjoy nature with my wife and getitng involved in my local community.