Friederike Hanssen
Bioinformatics Engineer
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolFriederike Hanssen is a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer with 11 years of experience building reproducible analysis pipelines and testing infrastructure, currently leading bioinformatics work at Seqera from Barcelona. With a strong academic background (Master’s with honors in Bioinformatics) and hands-on roles at QBiC, she bridges research and production by turning complex genomic tools into well-tested, maintainable modules. As an active nf-core core team member, she contributes backend modules and QA-focused test automation for widely used Nextflow tooling, notably improving seqkit integrations and pipeline linting. Colleagues rely on her blend of rigorous testing discipline, pipeline engineering, and an eye for refactoring that keeps community workflows robust and portable across environments.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, with Honors, Bioinformatik, 1.1, Master's degree, with Honors, Bioinformatik, 1.1 at Eberhard Karls Universität TübingenInformatik/Biologie, Honorstudent, Informatik/Biologie, Honorstudent at University of Alaska Fairbanks
English, German
Github Skills (13)
plugin-development10
testing10
unit-testing10
linter10
bioinformatics10
pytest10
drupal-module10
python10
nf-core10
nextflow10
pipeline10
package-development10
workflow-engine6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
nf-core/modules
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Repository to host tool-specific module files for the Nextflow DSL2 community!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:639 reviews, 149 commits, 167 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Friederike's contributions focused on developing and integrating functionality for the `nf-core/modules` repository, which hosts tool-specific module files. The commits indicate a primary focus on implementing modules and unit tests for the `seqkit` tool. This primarily involved modifying code and tests by adding options, using lists of reads as input, and refactoring, demonstrating a focus on tool integration and testing within the Nextflow DSL2 environment.
nf-corehostnextflow-dsl2nextflowdsl2
nf-core/tools
Dec 2019 - Mar 2022
Python package with helper tools for the nf-core community.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:32 reviews, 17 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Friederike primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure within the `nf-core/tools` repository. They implemented and expanded testing capabilities for pipeline naming conventions, including adding new tests and modifying existing ones to cover different scenarios. The contributions included refactoring existing tests and integrating new test cases to increase test coverage and ensure code quality for the linting tools.
nf-corelinterpythonpipelinelinting
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