Daniel Danis
Research Assistant at Berlin Institute of Health
Berlin, Germany
Summary
👤
SeniorDaniel Danis is a research-oriented software scientist with 11 years of experience applying Java, Python, and SQL to biotech and precision medicine problems, currently working as a Research Assistant at the Berlin Institute of Health. He has driven computational genomics projects at The Jackson Laboratory—most notably creating SQUIRLS, an AI-driven algorithm for detecting splicing mutations—and built production-grade libraries using Java frameworks like Spring and HtsJDK. His work spans end-to-end bioinformatics pipelines from whole-exome and long-read whole-genome data to clinical integration, delivering diagnoses that have directly informed patient therapies. Equally comfortable with data science tools (scikit-learn, pandas, Jupyter) and robust software engineering practices (Maven, JUnit), he publishes open-source code on GitHub to bridge research and reproducible tooling. A former pharmacist by training, he brings clinical empathy and regulatory awareness to computational solutions, helping translate genomic insights into actionable care. Based in Berlin, he blends deep statistical modeling with practical system-building to accelerate precision genomics.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
English, Czech, French, Slovak
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (99)
interpretation10
ontology10
genomics10
schema10
ontologies10
next-generation-sequencing10
cli10
java10
sequencing10
text-mining10
javafx10
bioinformatics10
monarchinitiative10
validation9
annotate9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
monarch-initiative/Squirls
Jun 2019 - May 2022
Interpretable prioritization of splice variants in diagnostic next-generation sequencing
Contributions:4 releases, 626 commits, 50 PRs in 3 years
next-generation-sequencing
ielis/ddconst
Sep 2020 - Apr 2025
Constants used across multiple codebases
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 7 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.