Henning Redestig
Senior Lead Scientist at IFF
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolHenning Redestig is a Senior Lead Scientist with 13+ years at the intersection of computational biology and software engineering, combining deep expertise in R, Python, C++ and statistics with applied genomics and protein engineering. He has led ML-driven protein engineering and lab automation initiatives in industry (DuPont, IFF) and maintained open-source constraint-based metabolic modeling tooling as a core contributor and DevOps engineer for COBRApy. Comfortable driving production ML and CI/CD in cloud and containerized environments, he pairs scientific rigor from a summa cum laude PhD in bioinformatics with practical delivery—building pipelines, Dockerized services and multi-platform Python wheel deployments. Based in Leiden, he blends academic insight in metabolomics and RNA‑seq with hands-on systems work, and unexpectedly bridges domain-driven lab informatics and low-level build automation to move research into reproducible production.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Engineering Biology, MSc, Engineering Biology at Umeå UniversityJYPE, Japanese Studies, JYPE, Japanese Studies at 東北大学 / Tohoku UniversityPhD, Bioinformatics, summa cum laude, selected best faculty thesis of the year, PhD, Bioinformatics, summa cum laude, selected best faculty thesis of the year at University of Potsdam
Japanese, German, English, Dutch, Swedish
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Github Skills (9)
bash10
pypi10
python10
build-automation10
cicd10
docker8
test-automation8
dockers8
bioinformatics6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
opencobra/cobrapy
Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
COBRApy is a package for constraint-based modeling of metabolic networks.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 releases, 193 commits, 258 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Henning's commits focus on automating the build and deployment processes for the Python-based COBRApy project. Their work included creating and modifying shell scripts to build Python wheels for multiple platforms and managing the deployment of the project to PyPI. The user was also responsible for setting up and maintaining a CI/CD pipeline, along with the installation of necessary tools and libraries for those tasks. These commits include integrating and configuring continuous integration services like Travis and Appveyor.
pythonsystems-biologysimulationsbml-simulationbioinformatics
hredestig/ggefp
Apr 2013 - Jul 2017
Contributions:39 commits, 15 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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