Gareth Peat
Software Engineer at Heavens-Above GmbH
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Peat is a software engineer with 11 years’ experience building data-driven platforms and interactive visualisations, currently contributing to Heavens-Above in Munich. He combines strong foundations in mathematics and computational biology (Cambridge) with hands-on experience across Python, TypeScript/Node, Rust and functional languages to deliver APIs, UIs and robust data pipelines. Gareth has implemented production bioinformatics and genomics platforms at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and EMBL-EBI, and is comfortable across SQL and analytical stores like ClickHouse and Elasticsearch. He favors pragmatic, testable engineering—bringing property-based testing and a can-do collaborative ethos to cross-disciplinary teams. Outside core domains he’s intrigued by aerospace and applies his visualization skills to make complex datasets immediately useful.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics at University of Cambridge
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (48)
genetics10
genes10
targets10
angularjs10
traits10
web-platform9
gwas9
bioinformatics9
react9
genomics9
computational-biology9
creative-commons9
flask-api8
graphql8
angular8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
opentargets-archive/genetics-app
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
Open Targets Genetics UI
Contributions:476 commits, 112 PRs, 325 pushes in 1 year 4 months
reactgeneticstargetsfront-endtraits
peatroot/blog
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:184 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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