A complete archive of low-level systems programming, algorithms, full-stack architectures, and DevOps coursework — providing the engineering backbone for modern bioinformatics.
All coursework modules completed during the intensive program
Memory layout, pointer arithmetic, dynamic allocation, structures, bit manipulation, and system calls.
C · ValgrindFrom-scratch implementation of the standard C printf with specifiers (%d, %s, %c, %x, %p) and buffer handling.
Binary Search Trees, AVL balance rotations, traversals (pre/in/post-order), Quick sort, Merge sort, and Big-O efficiency.
C · AlgorithmsCommand line interpreter: process management with fork/execve, signal handling, paths, and builtins.
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), file serialization (JSON), unit testing (unittest), SQL ORM, and REST APIs.
Python · SQLFull-stack project: CLI console interpreter, Flask web framework, MySQL database engine, and HTML/CSS presentation.
Python · Flask · MySQLAutomated deployment, configuration management, Nginx load balancers, SSL certificates, and Docker containerization.
Bash · Docker · NginxOSI 7 layers, TCP/IP, UDP sockets, DNS resolution, HTTP request/response lifecycles, and network security.
Networking · BashResponsive design, modern React hooks, Node.js server runtimes, Express routing, and MongoDB document databases.
React · Node.js · MongoDBHow each computer science domain directly powers high-throughput bioinformatics & computational biology
Direct pointer manipulation and heap optimization are required to build high-performance genomic aligners like BLAST, BWA, and Bowtie.
Tree traversals and shortest-path graph algorithms are the mathematical foundation of phylogenetic trees and de Bruijn genome assembly graphs.
Containerizing software environments guarantees 100% scientific reproducibility across HPC clusters, Nextflow, and Snakemake pipelines.
Object-oriented abstractions allow structured handling of complex biological entities: gene features, FASTA records, and BAM alignments.
API client design enables programmatic access to NCBI E-utilities, Ensembl REST, UniProt, ClinVar, and AlphaFold databases.
Linux administration, bash scripting, and process control are crucial for managing SLURM job arrays and high-throughput sequencing runs.
Bioinformatics Researcher & Computational Biologist
Equipped with a solid foundation from the intensive 9-month Holberton School Computer Science program, applying software engineering principles to computational biology, genomics, and multi-omics data analysis.