Alexandru Mahmoud

Auto-entrepreneur working as a technical consultant via part-time contracts, especially focusing on scientific (bioinformatics/genomics) projects

• 1 of 5 Bioconductor Core Team engineers maintaining Bioconductor infrastructure • Division-wide cloud development for the Channing, maintaining a K3s multi-node cluster and Helm stacks • Managing communication with collaborators and NHGRI stakeholders for BiocAnVIL project • Leading technical work for Bioconductor’s integration and deployment in the AnVIL (Broad Terra) in GCP and Azure • Primary developer and maintainer of the Bioconductor Workshop Galaxy (workshop.bioconductor.org), related automation for workshop authoring, and the Bioconductor authentication/authorization Keycloak instance • Allocation manager and technical contact for Bioconductor’s NSF-ACCESS Jetstream2 cloud allocation • Leading Bioconductor’s containerization and Kubernetes integration efforts • Developing and maintaining the Bioconductor Docker and BiocAnVIL Docker stacks, Bioconductor Helm Chart and its multi-cloud deployment tests, and Bioconductor Container Binaries build system • Creator and primary developer/maintainer of bioc2u, delivering R/Bioc packages for Ubuntu via `apt` system manager • Leading Bioconductor’s build and hosting infrastructure modernization effort, moving from relying on continuously running static infrastructure (VMs) to preferring ephemeral on-demand cloud infrastructure and services (integration with rUniverse project) • Creator and primary maintainer of Bioconductor Hubs Ingestion platform (Bioconductor/hubsingest) and R package helper (BiocHubsIngestR) • Primary developer and maintainer of Bioconductor's RWASM/Webr repository (webr.bioconductor.org) • Leader in the Bioconductor Cloud Working Group, and member of the Bioconductor Conference Committee

• Learned a rule-based chemical reaction modeling language and presented the simulation software to the team • Extended stochastic simulation models for one-dimensional DNA tile self-assembly • Created rule-based models for two-dimensional DNA tile self-assembly in BNGL • Wrote technical manuscripts explaining the devised framework and presenting NFsim simulation results • Created a python script to visualize some assemblies and tag specific tiles

• Developed an SAT correcting application that grades scanned answer sheets • Devised rules, guidelines, and timeline for the Competitive College Club program • Mentored students throughout the program and provided feedback on students’ applications and essays • Organized old and new students’ files and created an updated alumni database