Skills
Other skills: React, jQuery, Angular, Docker, AWS, helm, Django, Flask, data analysis, pipelines, CI/CD, Cloud Computing, High-Performance Clusters, MongoDb, Django.
BSc (cum laude) Maastricht Science Programme, Maastricht University
MRes Barcelona Institute of Science & Technology, Pompeu Fabra University
Who am I?
I am passionate about using my scientific training and curiosity to develop cutting edge software. By applying the software engineering practices I heave learnt in industry with scientific thinking, I am able to break down complicated problems and deliver high quality, maintainable, and scalable solutions.
In my spare time I love to climb, build real-world things (not just software), and travel around in my campervan.
Projects
HCA Project Catalogue
A comprehensive list of cellular resolution datasets for the Human Cell Atlas.
HCA Project Catalogue
Cluster Monitoring
High end monitoring solution for EBI allowing the tracking of performance degradation and error logs across the entire range of clusters and environments.
Cluster Monitoring
Advanced CI/CD
Continuous integration & deployment for EBI bringing the team into the modern era of application deployment. Created new development flows for the team and gave various presentations and Q&A sessions to aid the transition.
Advanced CI/CD
tmerge
Builds highly accurate transcripts from long-read RNA data. More accurate than competing tools.
tmerge
jReact
Use React style components with jQuery and support down to IE9. Done for abcam.
jReact
Webpackify
Overhauled abcam.com to use Webpack.
Webpackify
Pathway Presenter
Create dynamic & beautiful presentations from the pathways on WikiPathways!
Pathway Presenter
MetabMaster
Create stories for the pathways on WikiPathways! Award winning piece of work.
MetabMaster
PubChem Ranker
Rank compounds by the abundance of information found on PubChem and other databases.
PubChem Ranker
React Aspectral
Simple higher order component that allows for the dynamic resizing of React components to a given aspect ratio.
React Aspectral
Experience
Human Cell Atlas
Software Engineer | European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
Software Engineer for the Data Coordination Platform of the Human Cell Atlas - a global project aiming to create comprehensive reference maps of all human cells as a basis for both understanding human health and treating disease. Involved in development across the full stack of components as well as designing and implementing novel applications such as the Project Catalogue.
October 2020 - Present
Centre for Genomic Regulation
RNA Sequencing Analysis tools
Developed two tools for effectively analyzing long read RNA sequencing datasets: tmerge and SQANTI Explorer. Papers currently being written.
September 2019 - September 2020
Abcam
Software Engineer
Responsible for the front-end of abcam.com. Initiated a major modernisation of the front-end to use modern JavaScript practices. Trained other team members in adopting a functional approach to JavaScript programming.
November 2017 - January-2019
Google Summer of Code
WikiPathways 'Pathway Presenter'
Successfully passed the Google Summer of Code by completing a three month project to develop a tool for biologists to create presentations of biological pathways on WikiPathways (details: here).
June 2017 - September 2017
WikiPathways
Improving Educational Capabilities with 'Pathway Stories'
Worked with WikiPathways to improve the educational capabilities of the pathway diagrams by creating "pathway stories". Was part of bachelor thesis work for Maastricht University and I was awarded best thesis and received the Student Award for this work. Thesis can be found here.
January 2017 - June 2017