Andres Veidenberg
Ensembl Full-stack Developer at University of Helsinki
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndres Veidenberg is a back-end–focused full-stack developer and bioinformatics engineer with 12 years of experience building command-line tools, data pipelines, databases, and web interfaces for computational biology. He currently contributes to the Ensembl genome browser at EMBL-EBI while also supporting genomics work at the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu. His PhD and prior projects centered on web-native solutions for evolutionary sequence analysis—authoring tools like Wasabi, KUVA and Pline that emphasize reproducibility, collaboration and embeddable visualizations. Known for marrying modern web tech with clean UX, he makes complex genomic datasets accessible to researchers and integrates GUI-generation patterns with command-line workflows. Based in Cambridge, he blends academic rigor with production-grade engineering to deliver tools that scale from single analyses to community-facing resources.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc.), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MSc.), Bioinformatics at University of Tartu
Estonian, English, Finnish
Github Skills (64)
genome10
nmf10
plugin10
predictor10
evolutionary9
sequence-analysis9
evolution9
bioinformatics9
sequence9
genomics9
vep8
backend8
tracks8
seo8
perl7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
veidenberg/pline-docs
Jan 2020 - Sep 2021
Pline website: http://wasabiapp.org/pline
Contributions:16 PRs, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
Ensembl/ensembl-web-tools-api
Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:89 reviews, 24 PRs, 109 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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