Accelerating the knowledge and treatment of cancer

We are OICR's passionate team of software engineers, infrastructure specialists, and bioinformaticians building tools that empower the minds and machines accelerating the knowledge and treatment of cancer.

Mission

To engineer transformative software solutions that advance the frontiers of science, catalyze discoveries and enrich humanity.

Vision

We are leaders in the development of research software tools used to reduce global cancer burden.

Values

We value collaboration, integrity, and excellence, fostering an environment where we can grow better, together.

Our Team

Alexis Li
Alexis Li
Software Developer

Software developer who doesn't want to limit herself to only back end and front end. Always curious about technology, always learning. A cat lady who doesn't own a cat.

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Ann Catton
Ann Catton
Software Developer

Front end developer who likes to dip her toes in back end code. Loves solving puzzles and making things. Adores large format cameras. Still wants to be an archaeologist.

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Azher Ali Mohammed
Azher Ali Mohammed
Software Developer

An engineer who loves to solve complex coding and work on logic building. Holds a background in Computer Science and Master of Science in Project Management and Analysis. Also seeks interest in natural and wildlife photography.

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Brandon Chan
Brandon Chan
Business Analyst

Ever-curious business analyst who enjoys spec’ing out systems, asking nosy questions, and delivering great products. Wholly appreciates reading, writing, baseball, and retro video games.

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Ciarán Schütte
Ciarán Schütte
Software Developer

Ciarán, a full stack developer, tried to get an AI to write his bio. He just couldn’t get it to write anything sensible, so instead he chose to write the bio himself using JavaScript and javascript. Especially the bit about delicious garlic.

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Dan DeMaria
Dan DeMaria
Software Developer

Dan is a full stack developer building new features for the ICGC Data Platform. He is a father to 3 kids and a lifelong musician originally from California.

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Edmund Su
Edmund Su
Bioinformatician

Bioinformatician with experience in analyzing multi-omic and single-cell assays. Versed in Python, a touch of Java, and unfortunately R. Always happy to talk shop about bioinformatics, biology, and cancer.

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Hardeep Nahal-Bose
Hardeep Nahal-Bose
Bioinformatician

Bioinformatician who enjoys making sense of complicated data. Background in both bioinformatics and molecular biology with a strong desire to help cancer researchers tackle difficult problems. Strong appetite for knowledge and skittles.

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Henrich Feher
Henrich Feher
Cloud Architect

If you can't fix it with duct tape or a martini, it ain't worth fixing.

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Jared Baker
Jared Baker
Cloud Specialist

Infrastructure guy & sys admin. Advocate of read-only fridays. Allergic to downtime.

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Jon Eubank
Jon Eubank
Associate Technical Director

Full-stack developer who survived an education in "nanotechnology engineering" before escaping to the wonderful world of software. Practitioner of java, python, and javascript; dabbling in the dark arts of dev-ops, soccer, and Go/Baduk.

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Justin Richardsson
Justin Richardsson
Associate Technical Director

A crossbreed of Software Engineer and UX Designer; devoted to functional programming, behavioural economics, information architecture, heuristics, and metacognitive analysis. May or not be a chatbot.

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Linda Xiang
Linda Xiang
Bioinformatician

Passionate bioinformatician with experience in research, development, data analysis and machine learning. Likes the fact that my job keeps me in touch with real scientists and cool life science.

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Mélanie Courtot
Mélanie Courtot
Director & Principal Investigator

Talk to me about data and semantics, building knowledge ecosystems and solving real-worl health issues. Kids, cat, cheese and baguette.

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Mitchell Shiell
Mitchell Shiell
Outreach Lead

Scientist, educator, and digital creative using his powers to increase public support and awareness of incredible and innovative technologies. Also an avid hockey player and passionate photographer.

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Patrick Dos Santos
Patrick Dos Santos
Senior UI/UX Designer

Obsessed with making technology as intuitive as possible through data driven design choices. Always starts with the why before asking how. Also enjoys long walks along the ice-cream aisle.

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Rakesh Mistry
Rakesh Mistry
Software Architect

Full-stack developer with a passion for the front-end and web accessibility.

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Ummulkiram Rangwala
Ummulkiram Rangwala
Software Developer

I like to have fun.

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Yelizar Alturmessov
Yelizar Alturmessov
DevOps

Linux / Kubernetes admin, automation engineer and technical problem solver. Solution for a technology problem is incomplete unless automated.

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Our Alumni

Aleks Pejovic
Aleks Pejovic
Technical Business Analyst

Detail-orientated BA with a longstanding passion for the intersection of healthcare and technology. Educational background in Immunology, Computer Science and Business Analysis. Thrill-seeker, world-traveler, and Netflix-enthusiast.

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Alex Lepsa
Alex Lepsa
Senior Software Developer

Software developer operating at the intersection of science and technology. If not coding can usually be found tinkering with some personal project, 'scending routes, or paddling for OmNomNom DBC.

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Alex Wilmer
Alex Wilmer
Software Developer

Passionate JavaScript developer focusing on excellent user experiences and well maintained code. He loves to make animations, synthesizers and anything that makes the web more fun. When not coding, he’s running workshops and teaching others.

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Andy Yang
Andy Yang
Software Developer

Right-brained developer back when right-brained was still a thing; now just non-linear. Pragmatic. Seeks simplicity. Holds strong opinions, lightly. Luddite. Ironic.

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Bashar Allabadi
Bashar Allabadi
Software Engineer

Simple, yet detail and process oriented individual, likes being challenged to design, implement and take ownership of the work. Interested in large scale cloud native architectures & machine learning. Also enjoys cooking, nutrition, weight lifting and basketball.

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Bessie Rogel
Bessie Rogel
Business Analyst

Business Analyst who's trying to take on the world one spec/one requirement at a time. I enjoy learning by reverse engineering and practical immersion. I like to take apart stuff, I just need to learn how to put them back together. Anyone needs extra screws?

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Bob Tiernay
Bob Tiernay
Team Lead

A software architect with a passion for the craft of software engineering, always eager to learn and apply new technologies to difficult problems in order to solve them in the most efficient and collaborative ways possible.

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Brice Aminou
Brice Aminou
Bioinformatician

Bioinformatician passionate by the application of software engineering on biological data, I am always learning about new concepts and technologies. Curiosity is my philosophy.

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Chang Wang
Chang Wang
Frontend Architect

JavaScript Junkie • Pragmatic Perfectionist • Discount-steak Devotee

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Chen Chen
Chen Chen
Bioinformatics Coop

Studying Honours Computer Science at McMaster University. Python and Java are nice but ask me about Elm and CalcCheck. Tea enthusiast, coffee addict. Still a fawn in the game but I don't stay in my lane. Follow me on SoundCloud.

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Christine Yu
Christine Yu
Software Developer

Software developer navigating the weird, wacky and ever changing world of JavaScript. Dreads winding bobbins, will eat dessert for dinner.

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Daniel Lu
Daniel Lu
Software Developer

Software developer who doesn't want to limit himself to only back end and front end. Always curious, always learning. A dog person who doesn't own a dog.

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Denis Yuen
Denis Yuen
Software Developer

Back-end developer making sense of a multiverse of cloud technologies, virtualization, infrastructure, and workflow tools. Making sure that the office isn't destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Also loves travel, good food, and history.

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Dusan Andric
Dusan Andric
Team Lead

Software Architect and a full-stack software developer who enjoys tackling all manner of problems. Has a passion and history working in scientific and healthcare related fields. Will yell about the importance of testing. Loves dogs.

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Francois Gerthoffert
Francois Gerthoffert
Project Manager

Passionate project manager, diehard curious and solutions finder. Enjoy learning and experiencing new things, from rollerblading to Niagara falls to making his own furniture. Did I hear someone talking about cheese ?

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George Mihaiescu
George Mihaiescu
Cloud Architect

Cloud architect who knows his way around storage, virtualization, networking, security and new design patterns. Enjoys working on performance enhancing problems and proud of making a difference in cancer research.

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Grant Guo
Grant Guo
Senior Software Developer

Passionate back-end developer interested in applying distributed data computation software to domains, forever curious about new things.

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Henry Zhao
Henry Zhao
Software Developer

Software Developer working in both front-end and back-end. Love dogs, basketball, movies and fixing bugs.

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Ivan Borozan
Ivan Borozan
Scientific Associate

Theoretical physicist working in the fields of computational biology, bioinformatics and biostatistics. Current research projects include computational pathogen sequence identification in whole genome and transcriptome samples, information theory applications for biological sequence analysis, pancancer genome analysis, metagenomics.

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Jaser Uddin
Jaser Uddin
Software Developer

Developer working across the full stack. Quick learner and creative problem solver. Can always be found playing music or video games when not coding.

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Jeffrey Burt
Jeffrey Burt
Software Developer

Toronto based Front end developer who loves to make things. From handcrafted furniture to modern web apps he takes pride in learning from every experience and approaching problems in new ways.

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Junjun Zhang
Junjun Zhang
Bioinformatics Team Lead

True hybrid expertise in both biology world and information technology world. Enjoy working with biologists and software developers, serving as a bridge bringing best software solutions to complex biological data management challenges. Fascinated and inspired by ingenious open source software solutions, such as Elasticsearch, wishing to come up with his own one day.

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Kevin Hartmann
Kevin Hartmann
Senior Software Developer

Veteran programmer who still likes to learn new things. Plays with programming language design in his spare time. Currently owned by four cats and one spouse.

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Kim Cullion
Kim Cullion
Senior UX/UI Designer

Detail oriented designer who loves creating user friendly tools that help people in some way. Likes to balance functionality with creativity, while basing design decisions on data, user scenarios and business goals. Enjoys drawing, volleyball, puns, improv and live music.

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Minh Ha
Minh Ha
Software developer

Javascript enthusiast, constantly looking to explore the ever-expanding limit of web technologies. When I am not coding, playing guitar, or working out, I fill my time with running workshops and helping aspired developers.

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Phuong-My Do
Phuong-My Do
Business Analyst

Business Analyst who loves negotiating requirements with Software Engineers and Bioinformaticians to make a better world.

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Rahul Verma
Rahul Verma
Senior Software Developer

Software developer with love for many languages. Passionate for a good design. Always looking for various ways to decompose a complex problem and taking a stab at it in the quickest possible way.

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Robert Tisma
Robert Tisma
Senior Software Developer

Back-End software developer with a background in electrical & biomedical engineering, interested in developing innovative and beautiful software solutions to aid in cancer research.

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Rosi Bajari
Rosi Bajari
Technical Business Analyst

Business analyst with a bioinformatics background. Enjoys unhealthy amounts of coffee, games, and coming up with ideas to solve very complex problems.

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Shane Wilson
Shane Wilson
Team Lead

Software Architect with a passion for making tools that make developers' lives easier. Functional Programming geek. Facebook OSS fanboy (React, Relay, ReasonML).

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Sid Joshi
Sid Joshi
Software Developer

Front-End developer contributing to a good cause little by little everyday. Noob gamer, Learning lad, skilled hiker and developer of this blog.

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Sifa Vahora
Sifa Vahora
Senior Technical Business Analyst

Always working, 110% is minimum quality requirement. Loves food, people and softwares!!! Here to work on a noble cause, using my skills and expertise to make the world a better place!!!

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Touhidul Mridha
Touhidul Mridha
Technical Business Analyst

Business Analyst with science and technology background. Has a passion for requirements elicitation, problem solving, solution proposals, board games, health and fitness.

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Vincent Ferretti
Vincent Ferretti
Principal Investigator

Principal Investigator, team leader, revered monarch. Lead his teams in delivering high-quality infrastructure and software solutions used by cancer researchers worldwide. Detailed oriented, result focused, asks for nothing less than excellence. Rocks and trees are the perfect source of inspiration for software names.

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Vitalii Slobodianyk
Vitalii Slobodianyk
Software Developer

Big Data developer who always wants to improve software performance, reliability and maintainability. Prefers extensive code coverage over debugging.

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Xu Deng
Xu Deng
Developer / DevOps

Technology enthusiast. Read lots of fantasy books and perhaps live in a fantasy.

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