Francesco Vezzi
Head Of Bioinformatics And Software Development
Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco Vezzi is a Head of Bioinformatics and Software Development with 14 years of experience building clinical-grade NGS software and leading multidisciplinary teams. He holds a PhD in Computer Science focused on NGS analysis and has driven IVDR-compliant SaMD development, overseeing product strategy, documentation, and successful regulatory accreditation. Previously he led production bioinformatics at SciLifeLab, delivering scalable pipelines for national sequencing programs and complex de novo assembly projects. A hands-on developer and open-source contributor, he has made notable contributions to the widely used MultiQC project, improving Python modules and visualizations. Passionate about AI, automation, and RAG pipelines, he marries advanced tooling with strict medical-device standards (IEC 62304, ISO 13485/14971) to accelerate validated workflows. Colleagues value him for recruiting and mentoring strong teams that consistently deliver on-time, on-budget, and in compliance with regulatory requirements.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Udine
English, Swedish, Italian
Github Skills (8)
bioinformatics10
analyse10
python10
mu10
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
reporting-services8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MultiQC/MultiQC
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Aggregate results from bioinformatics analyses across many samples into a single report.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily worked on the `multiqc/multiqc` project, focusing on the `jellyfish` module and other custom content modules. They addressed bugs, integrated and modified existing code, including setup and configuration files, demonstrating proficiency in Python. Furthermore, they contributed to plot visualization and made general improvements throughout the codebase, as evidenced by the merge commits.
multiqcpythonpypianalysesbioconda
vezzi/TACA
Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 120 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
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