Bert Droesbeke
Research Software Engineer at Elixir Belgium
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolBert Droesbeke is a Research Software Engineer with seven years of experience bridging bioinformatics, data science, and research-focused software development based in Ghent, Belgium. He progressed from Data Scientist to Research Software Engineer at VIB, bringing practical expertise in reproducible computational workflows and containerized deployments. As a developer with Elixir Belgium and contributor to the widely used Galaxy training-materials, he has hands-on experience improving Docker-based deployment and data-loading scripts while enhancing documentation for research tooling. Trained in biochemistry and biotechnology at Ghent University, he combines domain knowledge with engineering discipline to make complex lab workflows more automatable and accessible. Notably, his work often focuses on the less-visible but critical plumbing—DevOps automation and technical writing—that keeps research software reliable and reusable.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Biochemestry and biotechnology, Master of Science (MS), Biochemestry and biotechnology at Ghent University
Github Skills (8)
galaxy10
bash10
docker10
buildr10
dockers10
documentation9
trainings9
yaml8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/training-material
Feb 2019 - Sep 2022
A collection of Galaxy-related training material
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Technical Writer
DevOps Engineer & Technical WriterContributions:6 reviews, 104 commits, 18 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bert primarily focused on improving the Docker-based deployment and data loading processes for the Galaxy training materials. They refactored and enhanced the `datalibrarydownload.sh` and `docker-install-tutorials.sh` scripts, ensuring correct data loading and enabling data-library installation within the container. Furthermore, they contributed to the documentation by adjusting layout files and writing parts of the Docker documentation.
chip-seqmetagenomicsrnaseqtraining-materialusegalaxy
bedroesb/about
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
Website about the project WorkflowHub
Contributions:35 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 1 month
workflow
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