Felix Mölders
Berater
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolFelix Mölders is a consultant and physicist-computer scientist hybrid with eight years of experience building reliable, automated tooling and data-driven solutions. Based in Düsseldorf, he blends academic rigor from an MSc in Physics and a BSc in Computer Science with hands-on backend engineering—contributing to prominent open-source projects like Snakemake where he implemented and optimized an ILP scheduler. His work on Bioconda packaging and Snakemake wrappers shows a focus on reproducible bioinformatics pipelines, automation, and cross-platform build reliability. He has moved between data science, BI consulting, and software engineering roles, bringing practical production experience from companies like MONDAY.ROCKS and Metro Systems. Beyond engineering, Felix has governance experience on supervisory boards, reflecting an ability to translate technical insight into strategic decisions. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns scientific methods into scalable software and quietly improves developer workflows behind the scenes.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc Physik, Master of Science - MSc Physik at University of Düsseldorf
German, English, Spanish, French, Russian
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Github Skills (21)
algorithms10
snakemake10
python10
package-management10
conda10
bash10
resource-management10
scheduler10
scheduling10
workflow-automation10
sched10
bioinformatics10
workflow-management10
testing7
dockers7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
snakemake/snakemake-wrappers
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
This is the development home of the Snakemake wrapper repository, see
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 37 reviews, 48 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of Snakemake wrappers, focusing on bioinformatics tools. Their work involved modifying existing wrappers for tools like Delly, Cutadapt, Freebayes, and pTrimmer, adding features like parallel processing and improving functionality. The user also addressed bug fixes, updated dependencies, and refined wrapper parameters to enhance the performance and usability of the Snakemake workflows.
snakemake
snakemake/snakemake
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
This is the development home of the workflow management system Snakemake. For general information, see
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 28 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to the Snakemake workflow management system's scheduler functionality, specifically the implementation of an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) scheduler. They refactored code, fixed bugs, and optimized the scheduler's logic for resource management, including core load and temporary file handling. Further contributions include adding new features to improve scheduler performance, such as direct temporary file removal, and adapting existing features to make them configurable via the command line.
snakemakereproducibilityworkflow-management
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