I am Ryan Castillo, currently a graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University working on my M.S. degree in Bioinformatics. I received my undergraduate degree in Computer Science with a minor in Physics.

I am interested in software development and feel OSS is essential for sceintific and academic progression. I've been developing since High School starting with Visual Basic, Pascal and C++. During my undergraduate studies the majority of my programs were done in JAVA (*shudders*). During my JAVA-life (*shudders*) I was once referred to as a "programming caveman" because I did not switch away from coding in DOS until my Junior year. Since then I've evolved to programming in VI and Emacs (peace people, peace) on both Linux and OS X.

For more information on myself and my work, feel free to check out my resume.

Editor
biowhat: a site dedicated to simplifying bioinformatics.

Developer
"Coming Soon"

Debugger
On OSS debugging:

"Go find a bug you hate. REALLY hate, then fix it"

- Some guy on IRC

For my Grandmother who died this past year. Every desire I have to help and care for others was instilled in me by her. My strive to succeed and motivation to help progress biological/medical field with my given computer science abilities is inspired my memory of her. We miss you Mama.