Summary
Freek Van Hemert is a PhD-trained bioinformatics entrepreneur with over 15 years of industrial research experience who founded Qodon.bio to deliver end-to-end NGS data infrastructure, analytics platforms, and real-time visualization for research, healthcare, and life-science partners. He couples deep hands-on skills in HPC, cloud and decentralized systems with a commitment to European data sovereignty, having integrated national supercomputing resources and advised major academic hospitals on strategic bioinformatics capability building. Previously a senior scientist at Philips, he translates complex multimodal biomedical data into actionable insights and pragmatic workflows, often using open standards and FOSS practices that shaped his self-taught engineering expertise. Clients value his blend of scientific rigor, regulatory awareness, and the ability to operationalize scalable, compliant pipelines and dashboards that keep data ownership local.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, student, M.Sc, student at Leiden University
Bachelor, Biochemistry, Bachelor, Biochemistry at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch