Andreas Heger
Head Of Engineering at Nuritas
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolAndreas Heger is a computational scientist and engineering leader with 17 years of experience building data-intensive bioinformatics platforms and teams, currently serving as Head of Engineering at Nuritas in Dublin. He pairs deep hands-on programming skills in Python, C/C++, R and Perl with a PhD in bioinformatics from Cambridge, bridging research-grade algorithms and production software. His background spans senior scientific and technical-director roles at Genomics plc and the MRC, where he led QC/QA, bioinformatic analyses and platform engineering for genomics pipelines. An active contributor to the pysam project, he has improved test coverage and added domain-specific features for handling SAM/VCF data, showing a focus on robust tooling for genomics. Known for translating complex biological problems into reliable, testable code, he combines curiosity-driven research instincts with pragmatic engineering discipline.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at University of CambridgeTechnische Universität Braunschweig
English, German
Github Skills (4)
unit-testing10
bioinformatics10
test-automation10
python10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pysam-developers/pysam
Aug 2009 - Oct 2022
Pysam is a Python package for reading, manipulating, and writing genomics data such as SAM/BAM/CRAM and VCF/BCF files. It's a lightweight wrapper of the HTSlib API, the same one that powers samtools, bcftools, and tabix.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:32 releases, 4 reviews, 1340 commits in 13 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the development and testing of pysam, a Python library for genomic data analysis. Their work includes implementing and testing new features like an empty read string representation for the AlignedRead object and adding new header tags (RG/PM) to VCF files. The contributions also involved fixing existing unit tests and improving test coverage for various functionalities, demonstrating experience with testing frameworks and the project's domain.
bcftoolsapipythonbcfpowers
CGATOxford/dashboard
Jan 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:57 commits, 29 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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