Edgar Garriga

What I Do

Bioinformatics

Seafarer

Dev-op

Cloud Computing

Experience

Emergency NGO
September '23 - March '24

RHIB driver - SAR Logistician

RHIB Driver on the MV Life Support for the SAR in the central Mediterranean operations. Taking care of the trainings and preparing the SAR teams. And implementing a system to take care of the logistics for the Search and Rescue team.

Medecins Sans Frontieres
June - August '23

SAR Technician

SAR Technician in the MV Geo Barents doing task preparing the deck and as a logistician for the SAR in the central Mediterranean operations.

Emergency NGO
March - June '23

RHIB driver - Rescuer

RHIB Driver/Rescuer on the MV Life Support for the SAR in the central Mediterranean operations.

SOS Humanity
November - January '22

RHIB driver

RHIB Driver on the MV Humanity 1 for the SAR in the central Mediterranean operations.

Salvamento Maritimo Humanitario
January - February '20

RHIB driver

RHIB Driver on the MV AitaMari for the SAR in the central Mediterranean operations.

Refugee Rescue UK
September '19

Lifeguard

Volunteer of the RHIB for the SAR operations in the Aegena sea.

Proactiva Open Arms
December '18

RHIB Driver

RHIB Driver on the SV Astral for the SAR in the central Mediterranean operations.

Proactiva
Summer '18

Coordinator

Coordinator of a team of 16 lifeguards in Mataro and skipper of the rescue jetski.

Proactiva OpenArms
July '17

Lifeguard

Volunteer of the RHIB on the MV OpenArms for the SAR in the central Mediterranean operations

Proactiva OpenArms
April '17

Lifeguard

Volunteer of the RHIB for the SAR operations in the Aegena sea.

Proteccion Civil
June '10 - September '12

RHIB driver, ambulance driver, lifeguard

Research Experience

Senior Bioinformatician
Sanger Institute (Hixton, United Kingdom)

Senior Bioinformatician

The main goal is to develop a cloud solution to launch/run pipelines for the users of the Human Genetics department. At the same time, it is required to convert the pipelines to Nextflow using modules. Nextflow tower was implemented making it easier for the users to deploy their pipelines and the catalog of the core team build for them.

Ph.D.
Center for Genomics Regulation (Barcelona, Spain)

New algorithmic contributions for large scale multiple sequence alignments of protein sequences

The main goal is to implement a new MSA algorithm to align large datasets. Another part is developing reproducible pipelines with Nextflow and running them in the cloud using AWS, Docker, or Conda. I published multiple articles in scientific journals.

Google Summer of Code
Open Bioinformatics Foundation (Barcelona, Spain)

Implement the support for Research Object specification into Nextflow framework

I obtain a Google grant to develop the ResearchObject in Nextflow. I was using Groovy to add the functionality into the core using Github to collaborate with mentors. The developed provenance feature is used in Nextflow, and the project was presented at international conferences.

Capstone Project
Universitat Autonoma Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)

MSA for the Big Data era

For the MSc thesis, I implemented an algorithm to perform high-scale MSA. I wrote it in C/C++ and Python, using the container’s technology to ensure reproducibility and HPC-Cloud Computing. I was able to publish an article showing the ability to align 1.4 million sequences.

Capstone Project
Simpson College (Indianola, United States of America)

Creating DNA Libraries Using Thermodynamics and Sequence Alignment Algorithms

For the Bachelor's undergrad capstone, I did a web server in an international and multidisciplinary team. The aim was to produce random DNA sequences with a user's specific temperature range. I used JavaScript and other web-oriented technologies to build all the required parts.

European Project Semester
Politechnika Lodzka (Lodz, Poland)

Noise Management at EU Airports, Case of Lodz

On the Erasmus+, the European Project Semester was proposed to perform a study about the noise of the Lodz's airport from a theoretical point of view and performing experiments in an anechoic room. I worked with an analytical approach and a practical proposal, using databases and the physics of the sound to solve it. A report was delivered with the analysis and the proposed solution, with a campaign to explain the study to the citizens.

Design Skills

UI/UX Design

80%

Graphic Design

85%

Logo Design

90%

Coding Skills

HTML / CSS

100%

Java

90%

JavaScript

80%

Python

95%

R

90%

Flutter

60%

React

70%

Tembo Courses