Catalina Alvarez
Field Application Specialist
Portugal
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolCatalina Alvarez is a life sciences and bioinformatics specialist with 11+ years of experience bridging academia and industry across Europe and the Americas. She has deep expertise in NGS/TGS analysis and multi-omics integration—spanning RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, WGBS and more—paired with hands-on pipeline development and customer-facing technical support. As a Field Application Specialist and former research scientist and postdoc, she translates complex experimental designs into actionable analysis strategies and clear presentations for collaborators and clients. Her background in immunology, genetics and parasitology gives her a rare combination of wet-lab insight and computational rigor, enabling pragmatic solutions for translational and service-driven projects. Colleagues value her autonomy, cross-cultural project leadership, and ability to troubleshoot technical challenges while improving reproducible analysis workflows.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Integrative Biology and Biomedicine, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Integrative Biology and Biomedicine at Universidade Nova de LisboaUniversidad de los Andes
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (13)
extensible8
c-library7
cpp6
spark5
machine-learning5
delaunay-triangulation4
big-data4
data-science4
bootstrap2
django2
django-project2
dns1
aggregator1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cemcen/Veamy
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 releases, 113 commits, 5 PRs in 6 months
cppc-librarymethodc-plus-plusheader-only
nal-epfl/tero-data
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2614 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.