Alejandro Abdala
Sr. Research Assistant at NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAlejandro Abdala is a senior research software engineer with a decade of experience building bioinformatics pipelines, web applications, and large-scale data systems across academic and industry settings. He combines strong software foundations in Java, Python and C with a master’s in Computational Science to automate OMIC analyses and manage complex databases and big-data workflows. At NIOZ he’s advanced from research assistant to senior research assistant, applying production-grade engineering to ecological and metagenomic projects. His background includes delivering government-facing genomic tools in Mexico and integrating biodiversity datasets with national repositories, showing a knack for turning research needs into reliable, deployable software. Based in the Netherlands, he thrives at the intersection of engineering and biology, bringing practical pipeline automation skills that aren’t obvious from a pure biology or CS résumé.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Engineer, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Engineer at Tecnológico de MonterreyMaster’s Degree, Computational Science, Master of Science, Master’s Degree, Computational Science, Master of Science at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Spanish, English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (9)
bam9
fasta9
sequence-analysis8
bioinformatics8
sequence8
bioconda7
pipeline6
test-data4
testing3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AlejandroAb/CASCABEL
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
Automated pipeline for amplicon sequence analysis
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 67 pushes in 3 years 5 months
sequencepipelinebiocondaampliconfasta
AlejandroAb/CIGOMDB
Jul 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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