Aljoscha Gerber
Bioinformatician
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolAljoscha Gerber is a bioinformatician with 10 years’ experience building production-ready genomics and proteomics workflows that bridge research and clinical pipelines. He has led containerized workflow adoption, GitLab CI/CD, SLURM/Singularity HPC, and REST API development (FastAPI + SQLAlchemy) at DKMS Life Science Lab, and previously established NGS pipelines and supervised molecular projects in immuno-oncology at Provecs. Pragmatic and self-taught, he moved from bench biochemistry to programming after automating transcriptomics analyses with Unix, R, Python and Docker, and now adds SQL, CI/CD and early Julia experimentation to his toolkit. He pairs domain expertise in NGS, mass spectrometry and cancer immunology with reproducible engineering practices to deliver scalable, auditable analyses. A contributor to notable open-source projects, he has extended backend functionality in the popular discord-jda repository, showing comfort with collaborative codebases beyond bioinformatics. Based in Dresden, he combines persistence, fast learning and a user-focused mindset to turn complex biological data into actionable insights.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Biochemistry, 2.0, Diplom, Biochemistry, 2.0 at Universität Greifswald
German, English
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
discord-jda/JDA
Dec 2015 - Sep 2018
Java wrapper for the popular chat & VOIP service: Discord https://discord.com
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 89 commits, 47 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Aljoscha primarily focused on modifying and extending the AccountManagerImpl in the discord-jda/jda repository, specifically to support features like avatar updates, email changes, password updates and username changes within the Discord platform. They added support for presence management by incorporating the ability to set the current game and display status of the user. Furthermore, the user implemented the methods and classes to support the ability to leave guilds.
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Almighty-Alpaca/JetBrains-Discord-Integration-Icons
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
Icons for https://github.com/Almighty-Alpaca/JetBrains-Discord-Integration
Contributions:7 releases, 32 commits, 48 pushes in 1 year 1 month
discorddiscord-integrationjetbrainsalpacaicons
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