ALICE MINOTTO
BIO
My Story
I'm a molecular biologist turned DevOps/Software Engineer with experience in data management and a professional qualification in project management.
Most importantly, I have the gift of brevity.
EXPERIENCE
Work History
RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEER, EARLHAM INSTITUTE
Co-developer of COPO, a data brokering platform for bioinformatics. Supporting the Darwin Tree of Life and European Reference Genome Atlas communities to effectively annotate metadata and increase FAIRness in life science.
Python | Django | Docker | Virtual Machines | MongoDB | User Support | Teaching | Line Management | Recruitment
May 2020 -
SCIENTIFIC EDITOR, FREELANCER
Editing scientific papers
Editing | Writing | Proofreading | Science
September 2022 -
DEVOPS ENGINEER, EARLHAM INSITUTE
December 2017 - April 2020
In charge of the CyVerse UK project, sister project of the main US CyVerse, administering the on premise cloud infrastructure.
Cloud | Docker | HTCondor | User Support | SysAdmin | Openstack | OpenNebula | Web applications | iRODS | API | Teaching | Presenting
CYVERSE UK DEVELOPER, EARLHAM INSITUTE
Developing containerised bioinformatics applications for CyVerse UK.
Bioinformatics | Docker | API I Django
April 2016 - December 2017
PRE-DOCTORAL INTERN, TSL
September 2015 - April 2016
Coding and providing biological feedback in a project aimed at modelling pathogen genome size evolution.
Bioinformatics | Static websites
TUTOR, CUSMIBIO
2014 - 2015
Teaching biotechnology and supervising wet lab activities.
Biology | Teaching
PRIVATE TUTOR
2006 - 2014
Tutoring students in math, English, science and latin.
Teaching
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
What I’ve Learned
PRINCE2® 6TH EDITION FOUNDATION AND PRACTITIONER IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Certified project management practitioner in PRINCE2.
August 2021
DIGITAL LEADER PROGRAM, JISC
I participated in this Jisc initiative to form leaders in the digital field, learning not only the technological pitfalls of digital changes, but also the cultural and institutional ones
October 2019
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY SUMMER SCHOOL, IFOM
I attended the summer school at the Italian Foundation for Cancer Research, Institute of Molecular Oncology to improve my bioinformatics knowledge with a focus on new single cell technology
July 2016
MSC MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
I hold a master from Università degli Studi di Milano (110L/110). During the 1year internship I joined the bioinformatics group and started my ongoing computing training
July 2014
BSC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
I completed my bachelor at the Università degli Studi di Milano (110L/110), having attended courses on a number of different biological fields
July 2012
PUBLIC SPEAKING
A Valuable Skill
CODING
I also Write Docs
SYS ADMIN
A Necessary Evil