Guus Van De Steeg
Principal Software Developer at Wellcome Sanger Institute
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGuus Van De Steeg is a Principal Software Developer based in the UK with seven years of experience building bioinformatics and scientific software at organizations including the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Illumina. He progressed from hands-on lab roles and bioinformatics trainee work into software engineering, bringing rare domain fluency in genomics workflows alongside production-grade engineering. At Sanger he has advanced from Scientific Programmer to Principal, driving architectures that bridge research data models and scalable analysis pipelines. His background in RDF-backed transcriptomics tooling and wet-lab techniques informs pragmatic designs that respect both data provenance and developer ergonomics. Known for combining scientific curiosity with disciplined software delivery, he thrives on turning complex biological problems into reliable, reproducible code.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Biology and Medical Research, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Biology and Medical Research at Avans Hogeschool BredaMaster of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics at Wageningen UniversityTechnician Biotechnology, Technician Biotechnology at ROC De Leijgraaf Oss
English, Dutch
Github Skills (74)
documented10
flask-restplus10
storage10
amazon-s310
flask-api10
rest9
sdk9
api9
minio-client9
swagger9
flask-restful9
flask9
k8s9
headers9
pytest9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GvandeSteeg/python_fun
Jan 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
sanger-pathogens/python_fun
Jan 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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