Christian Frech
Principal Software Engineer at Caris Life Sciences
Tempe, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolChristian Frech is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native data platforms and reproducible bioinformatics pipelines, now based in Tempe, Arizona. He blends deep domain expertise in genomics (WGS, WES, single-cell, RNA-seq) with practical cloud architecture—having led provenance-aware data lakes and production pipelines for pharma and diagnostics. At Seven Bridges he bridged science, product and business, authoring proposals over $2M and launching strategic products, and at Celsius he owned in-house sequencing pipelines and Python tooling. Trained as a bioinformatician with a PhD, he is comfortable moving from algorithm design and R/Python analysis to scalable, auditable cloud deployments. An early developer with a background in C++/Java and CRM consulting, he brings a rare mix of hands-on engineering, scientific rigor, and stakeholder-facing delivery.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ing. Electronic Data Processing and Organisation, Ing. Electronic Data Processing and Organisation at Technical High School St. Pölten, AustriaDipl.Ing. (FH) Bioinformatics, Dipl.Ing. (FH) Bioinformatics at Hagenberg Campus - FH Upper AustriaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics at Simon Fraser University
German, English
Github Skills (33)
twine10
devkit9
command-line-interface9
seq9
command-line-parser9
argparse9
cli9
rna-seq9
docker8
genomics8
python-bindings8
python8
sequencing8
golang8
console8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Gig77/ccri-hdall
May 2013 - Sep 2016
Contributions:108 commits, 7 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Gig77/CooVar
Jun 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:70 commits, 1 comment in 5 months
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