Guillaume Rizk
Principal Software Engineer at Illumina
Greater Rennes Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolGuillaume Rizk is a Principal Software Engineer based in the Greater Rennes area with 13 years of experience blending hands-on engineering, entrepreneurial leadership, and bioinformatics domain knowledge. He has led product and technical efforts as Principal at Illumina while previously founding and running startups (Algorizk) and co-founding Enancio, demonstrating an ability to take ideas from research-stage PhD work to scalable commercial systems. His background includes consulting for GenomeQuest, indicating practical experience at the intersection of software and genomics. Comfortable switching between deep technical delivery and company leadership, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor from Université de Rennes I and pragmatic startup execution.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Phd student, Phd student at Université de Rennes INational School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble
Github Skills (76)
package-management10
hash-functions10
genomics10
mer10
perfect10
hash10
insertion10
phash10
genome10
conda10
hashmap10
hash-algorithm10
filter10
hashids10
genome-analysis10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GATB/bloocoo
Jun 2013 - May 2017
Contributions:50 commits, 2 comments in 3 years 11 months
rizkg/BBHash
Dec 2015 - Jun 2019
Bloom-filter based minimal perfect hash function library
Contributions:1 release, 128 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 6 months
cryptographyphashminimal-perfect-hashfunction-libraryhashids
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