Andreas Wilke
Principal Software Development Specialist at Genomic Standards Consortium
Lemont, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAndreas Wilke is a Principal Software Development Specialist with 14 years of experience building scalable bioinformatics platforms and scientific software at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago. He led architecture and modernization efforts for MG-RAST, redesigning its API and storage to support Cassandra, MongoDB, ElasticSearch and S3 while introducing containerized deployment and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes. His work spans metagenomics pipelines, annotation systems, and reproducible testing frameworks for climate modeling codes, blending deep computational-biology expertise with pragmatic engineering. He frequently bridges research and production, converting ad hoc scientific tests into automated CI workflows and exploring ML-driven predictive analyses with TensorFlow and scikit-learn. Based in Lemont, Illinois, he combines a Diplom in Bioinformatics with hands-on systems design that quietly shapes widely used community resources in genomics.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Bielefeld UniversityDiplom, Bioinformatics, Diplom, Bioinformatics at Universität Bielefeld
Github Skills (88)
climate-model10
energy10
snl-applications10
renewable-energy10
fortran10
climate-science10
earth10
climate-change10
modeling10
protein-sequences9
pipeline9
exascale9
api9
backend9
rest-api9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
MG-RAST/qiime-pipeline
Aug 2018 - Jan 2025
MG-RAST embedded QIIME pipeline using CWL
Contributions:4 PRs, 78 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 5 months
cwlqiimepipelineembedded
MG-RAST/ebi-submitter
Dec 2014 - Nov 2019
Tools for submitting public MG-RAST jobs to the EBI's ENA archive
Contributions:56 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 11 months
ebienaarchivejobs
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