Daniel Loos
Software Engineer And Project Manager at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Jena, Thuringia, Germany
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Top SchoolDaniel Loos is a software engineer and project manager with 11 years of experience at the intersection of bioinformatics, full‑stack development, and geospatial data engineering. Currently at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, he leads ESA projects and builds Julia-based tools and data structures for raster geospatial data, while previously architecting pipelines and web servers for fungal amplicon analyses during his PhD work. Comfortable across Tidyverse, Docker, GitLab CI/CD and cloud tooling, he translates complex metagenomic questions into reproducible pipelines and teachable workflows. He brings a rare combo of hands-on DevOps, statistical programming, and scientific domain expertise in fungal and microbial ecology, and maintains a public presence showcasing his projects and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Gymnasium SoltauBachelor of Science - BS, Molecular Life Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Molecular Life Science at Universität zu LübeckDr. rer. nat., Bioinformatik, Dr. rer. nat., Bioinformatik at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
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danlooo/danlooo
Feb 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
danlooo/personal-website
Feb 2022 - Aug 2023
Personal website
Contributions:6 PRs, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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