Christian Brueffer
Data Scientist
Lund, Skåne County, Sweden
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Top expert inComputational Genomics and Bioinformatics Workflow Development
Christian Brueffer is a seasoned Data Scientist based in Lund, Sweden, with 23 years of hands-on experience blending bioinformatics and software engineering. He contributes regularly to high-profile open-source projects—Biopython, bcbio-nextgen, SciPy and bioconda—where his work ranges from back-end pipeline refactors and packaging automation to careful documentation and maintenance. Christian’s strengths lie in making legacy bioinformatics tools more robust and reproducible: he has fixed ClustalW wrapper quirks, migrated wrappers to modern APIs like pysam, and automated R/Bioconductor packaging for conda-forge/bioconda. Equally comfortable improving developer experience and writing release docs, he brings a practical, detail-oriented approach to complex scientific software. An understated skill is his knack for fixing long-standing, subtle issues (typos, option syncing, file-handling bugs) that quietly improve reliability across research workflows.
23 years of coding experience
Github Skills (27)
algorithms10
conda-forge10
biom10
python10
package-management10
xslt10
freebsd10
r10
bash10
conda10
biopython10
software-quality10
automation10
bioinformatics10
automations10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
conda-forge/staged-recipes
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
A place to submit conda recipes before they become fully fledged conda-forge feedstocks
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:271 reviews, 1894 commits, 2143 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Christian's primary contribution involved adding and modifying build scripts for various R packages to be included in the conda-forge repository. The commits focused on creating recipes for these packages, including the necessary `build.sh` and `bld.bat` files for different operating systems. These recipes all utilized a standard template that invoked the `R CMD INSTALL` command, indicating a focus on automating the build and packaging of R software.
placeconda-forgerecipescondasubmit
biopython/biopython
Nov 2012 - May 2022
Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:169 commits, 9 PRs, 43 comments in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements related to the `-stats` option within the BioPython project. The commits involved changes to the code of the `Bio/Align/Applications/_Clustalw.py` file. Additionally, the user corrected multiple typos and addressed issues originating from the legacy of ClustalW by applying some fixes and syncing the wrapper options.
git-repositoryphylogeneticspythondnagenomics
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