Iakov Davydov
Principal Scientist at Roche
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolIakov Davydov is a Principal Scientist in Basel with 11 years’ experience applying statistics and machine learning to molecular biology problems, combining a PhD in molecular biology with strong engineering chops from an earlier specialist degree. At Roche he progressed from postdoc to senior and now principal scientist, translating complex life-science questions into data-driven solutions and production-ready analyses. He pairs rigorous research experience across Swiss institutes with practical software development—contributing to open-source projects from cloud sync tooling (rclone) to embedded watch apps—demonstrating comfort across back-end and front-end code. Known for improving file-filtering and directory management in a widely used cloud-storage sync tool, he brings attention to detail and systems thinking to bioinformatics problems. Colleagues rely on him to bridge wet-lab intuition and scalable computational pipelines, often spotting opportunities to simplify hidden operational complexities.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist degree (equivalent of master's), ENGINEERING, Specialist degree (equivalent of master's), ENGINEERING at Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University)Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (32)
javascript10
filesystem10
web-bluetooth10
file-operations10
rclone10
go10
smartwatch10
fileio10
cloud-storage10
data-synchronization9
ui-design9
synchronized9
synchronize9
synchronization9
data-sync9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
espruino/BangleApps
May 2022 - May 2022
Bangle.js App Loader (and Apps)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 6 PRs, 6 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Iakov primarily contributed to the development of applications for the Bangle.js smartwatch. Their work involved creating and modifying widgets for the watch, including a battery widget and a Bluetooth connectivity widget. The user implemented features such as hiding the Bluetooth widget when disconnected and updating the weather display on a digital clock application. The user also updated icons and formatting.
javascriptloadersmartwatchwebbluetooth
rclone/rclone
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Iakov primarily focused on implementing and refining features related to file filtering and directory management within the rclone project. Their contributions included adding new options for excluding files based on presence, supporting exclude files in fast-list mode, and integrating checks for exclude files within the directory listing functionality. The code changes involved modifications to the file system (fs) and walk modules, along with updates to the filter and operations components. This work appears to enhance rclone's file synchronization and management capabilities.
googlefile-storageyandexonedrivestorage
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