Clovis Norroy is a software engineer with 8 years of experience blending bioinformatics and web development, based in the Greater Lyon area. He has maintained and extended production bioinformatics platforms (MicroScope) using PHP/jQuery and built business-critical web applications with Angular and Java. His background includes C++ development for sensitive homology detection at the Max Planck Institute and practical contributions to the widely used MMseqs2 project, where he improved ORF lookup and memory handling in core utilities. Trained in bioinformatics and web management across multiple French universities, he bridges computational biology algorithms and full-stack engineering. Currently transitioning away from web development, he is seeking a new technical adventure that leverages both his research-grade algorithmic experience and production engineering skills. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces subtle performance and stability fixes that matter in large scientific codebases.
MMseqs2: ultra fast and sensitive search and clustering suite
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:27 commits, 25 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Clovis primarily focused on enhancing the MMseqs2 codebase by introducing new functionalities. Their contributions included creating lookup databases for ORF (Open Reading Frame) to set and set to ORF id, as well as implementing a new parameter for the `filterdb` utility to join databases. Further enhancements involved addressing memory issues within the `transnucl` function and making minor code revisions to improve build stability and overall code quality. These changes suggest a focus on improving the functionality and utility of the MMseqs2 suite.
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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