Andrey Solovyev
Senior Genetic Informatician
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrey Solovyev is a Senior Genetic Informatician based in London with nine years’ experience translating genomic and transcriptomic data into actionable insights across academia and biotech. He has progressed from internships and academic research to roles at EMBL-EBI and Achilles Therapeutics, and now leads genetic informatics work at Novo Nordisk, blending bioinformatics, ML and production-focused pipeline development. Andrey contributes to the prominent bioconda-recipes repository, helping ensure reproducible packaging and deployment of bioinformatics tools—an often-overlooked but critical part of reliable computational biology. Trained in bioinformatics (MSc, University of Edinburgh) with a biochemical background from UCL, he pairs deep domain knowledge with practical software engineering to move analyses from notebooks into robust workflows.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Bioinformatics, Master of Science - MS Bioinformatics at The University of EdinburghUniversity College London
Russian, German, English
Github Skills (7)
bioinformatics10
conda10
bash10
package-management10
r9
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 46 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Andrey primarily contributed to the bioconda-recipes repository by adding and updating recipes for various bioinformatics tools, including r-garnett, garnett-cli, r-scPred, scpred-cli, cell-types-analysis, scmap-cli, and atlas-data-import. Their work involved creating build scripts, modifying existing build processes, and adapting recipes to ensure compatibility and correct functionality. They frequently updated dependencies and versions, and incorporated new versions into existing recipes.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
ebi-gene-expression-group/cell-types-eval-control-workflow
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 88 pushes, 6 branches in 6 months
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