Ivo Leist
Doctoral Candidate In Bioinformatics
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolIvo Leist is a doctoral candidate in bioinformatics based in Barcelona with 8 years of experience building data-driven web tools and production data warehouses for genomics and clinical projects. He combines strong full-stack skills—Python (Flask/Celery), R (Shiny), React, PostgreSQL and Docker—with domain expertise from research roles at CNAG and Heidelberg, translating complex biological data into usable web applications. At CNAG he led maturation of a data warehouse for a large IMI project and delivered clinical data toolkits, while earlier work included a COSMIC visualization tool and automation of reporting pipelines at Roche. He contributes to open-source bioinformatics UI work, notably front-end development for plotly/dash-bio (adding dash-ngl and improving component flexibility and tests). Comfortable moving between research and product contexts, he blends rigorous academic training with practical engineering to push bioinformatics tools toward production readiness. An understated strength is his knack for simplifying hardcoded, brittle integrations into flexible, testable components that scale with project needs.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at University of BarcelonaBiochemistry, Biochemistry at Imperial College LondonMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Biochemistry, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Biochemistry at Heidelberg University
English, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
component-development10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
testing9
dashjs9
bioinformatics8
jupyter-notebook6
colormap6
server6
plotly6
ipython6
python6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
plotly/dash-bio
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Open-source bioinformatics components for Dash
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 73 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ivo primarily contributed to the development of front-end components for the `dash-bio` repository. Their work included adding new components like `dash-ngl` and enhancing existing ones by adding features, descriptions, and cleaning up code. The user also addressed issues by removing hardcoding and making the components more flexible. Furthermore, the user was involved in updating tests and improving the overall code quality.
dashbiojsbioinformaticsplotly-dashplotly
CNAG-Biomedical-Informatics/convert-pheno-ui
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
The web UI for Convert-Pheno, a software toolkit for the interconversion of standard data models for phenotypic data
Contributions:3 reviews, 52 PRs, 510 pushes in 1 year 9 months
beacon-friendly-formatcdiscconvertomop-cdmpheno-clinical
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