Dries Decap
University Researcher at imec
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolDries Decap is a university researcher with 12 years of experience building high-performance bioinformatics pipelines for next-generation sequencing, specializing in somatic and germline variant calling. At imec and Ghent University he focuses on performance, parallelization and scalable implementations using Apache Spark and MapReduce to productionize GATK best-practices and motif-detection workflows. His work spans both algorithmic optimization and multi-node engineering—turning research prototypes into efficient, cluster-ready tools such as Halvade-style processors. Comfortable across Linux-based stacks and large data frameworks, he blends deep computational biology knowledge with pragmatic software engineering to accelerate genomics analyses. An M.Eng. in Computer Science from Hogeschool Gent, he brings a researcher’s rigor to real-world performance tuning and pipeline deployment.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science at Hogeschool Gent
English, Dutch, Chinese
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Github contributions (5)
biointec/halvade
Sep 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:5 releases, 52 commits, 89 pushes in 2 years 5 months
ddcap/halvade
Dec 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 12 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 4 months
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