Alireza Heidari
Software Engineer & Core Committer at The University of Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAlireza Heidari is a software engineer and core committer with 8 years of experience building front-end-heavy, data-intensive scientific applications from Freiburg, Germany. As a trusted committer on the well-known Galaxy project, he leads major Vue.js/TypeScript frontend migrations and designs core UI features—recently driving a Vuex-to-Pinia state migration and implementing secure credential handling and a notification/workflow system. He brings full-stack experience from genomics R&D—containerized, Kubernetes-orchestrated services with real-time features and REST APIs—and a history of shipping production-grade dashboards and tooling. Alireza blends academic rigor (peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations) with practical engineering, and his GitHub persona—“Engineering Galaxy and nearby star systems”—reflects a knack for making complex scientific platforms more usable and reliable.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of IsfahanHigh School Diploma Mathematics, High School Diploma Mathematics at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)
English, Persian, German
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Github Skills (13)
typescript10
javascript10
user-interface10
typescripts10
vue10
typescript-types10
vue-jsx10
bootstrap-vue9
html8
css8
angular-ui-bootstrap6
angular-bootstrap6
angularjs6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/galaxy
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Data intensive science for everyone.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:120 reviews, 37 commits, 85 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alireza primarily focused on front-end development within the Galaxy project. Their contributions involved significant changes to the user interface and front-end components of the application. They are responsible for a variety of UI enhancements and bug fixes, including setting default values, adding buttons, and making the interface more responsive. They also ensured proper rendering and functionality of various front-end elements within the application.
pythonsciencepipelinednadata-science
itisAliRH/galaxy
Dec 2021 - Apr 2025
Data intensive science for everyone.
Contributions:60 PRs, 923 pushes, 198 branches in 3 years 3 months
pythonsciencedataframesdata-scienceintensive
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