Gerardo Tauriello
Team Lead, Software Development at SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
Summary
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SeniorGerardo Tauriello is a team lead in software development at SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics with nine years of experience bridging computational biology and production software. He leads development of the SWISS-MODEL ecosystem and related services, combining hands-on Python/C++ engineering with team management, Scrum delivery, funding acquisition, and stakeholder reporting. His work spans data curation and standardisation (ModelArchive, ModelCIF), evaluation of structure-prediction methods (CAMEO/CASP) and integration of AI/ML advances such as AlphaFold and protein language models into practical tools. Based in Basel, he pairs research-grade rigor with product focus—frequently presenting at conferences and contributing to publications—while also bringing organizational perspective from committee service within SIB. A less obvious strength is his fluency across both algorithmic assessment and operationalising data standards, enabling smoother translation of cutting-edge methods into reliable services.
9 years of coding experience
Italian, German, English, French
Github Skills (40)
encoder10
folding10
decoder10
structural-biology9
data-management9
bioinformatics9
api9
pdb-files9
research-data-management9
pathogen9
proteins9
scientific-visualization9
protein-structure9
cpp9
sequence8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gtauriello/mmtf-cpp
Mar 2017 - Oct 2020
The pure C++ implementation of the MMTF API, decoder and encoder.
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 8 months
apicpppure-cdecoderencoder
rcsb/mmtf-cpp
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
The pure C++ implementation of the MMTF API, decoder and encoder.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 35 commits in 5 years 8 months
apicpppure-cdecoderencoder
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