Charlotte Herzeel
Software Engineering Expert at imec
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlotte Herzeel is a software engineering expert with over a decade of experience designing high-performance, parallel and distributed systems for life sciences, pharmaceuticals and semiconductor applications. With a PhD in Computer Science from VUB and a track record at imec’s ExaScience lab, she combines rigorous research instincts with production-grade engineering—evident in elPrep, a parallel sequencing pipeline she architected that is widely validated and downloaded via Bioconda. Her work spans algorithms, big data analytics and resilient schedulers, and she has optimized tools to process +50TB datasets and clinical trajectories efficiently on multicore and distributed platforms. A (leading) author on 20+ publications and patents and a 2021 Sigma Xi nominee for impact in bioinformatics, she bridges academia and industry while keeping a hands-on role in open-source projects used in hospitals and by commercial partners.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (18)
sequence-alignment10
sequencing10
map-files10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
fasta10
sequence10
pipeline9
high-performance9
bam8
java-api6
bioconda6
fastq6
hts6
nim-language5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ExaScience/elprep-demo
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 year 11 months
ExaScience/ptra
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Patient Trajectory Analysis Library
Contributions:1 review, 1 commit, 3 PRs in 1 day
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