Brad is a senior research scientist in the Bioinformatics Core at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He develops open source community built infrastructure for analyzing biological data, focusing on multi platform interoperability and automated validation against heterogeneous data sets (http://bcb.io/). Brad also helps organize regular collaborative working sessions with the goal of connecting and energizing the open source community (https://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Codefest_2017) (https://galaxyproject.org/events/gccbosc2018/collaboration/). Solving difficult biological problems requires large scale coordination amongst a diverse set of researchers, and Brad enables this collaboration through community development and supporting validated, interoperable software.