Jakob Willforss
Bioinformatician At Clinical Molecular Diagnostics
Lund, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJakob Willforss is a bioinformatician and software engineer with 11 years’ experience building tools and analyzing large-scale omics data, now working in Clinical Molecular Diagnostics at Region Skåne. He combines a PhD-backed research background in proteomics with hands-on software delivery—having authored a widely used Bioconductor package and led feature development and data migrations in industry. Pragmatic about efficiency, Jakob excels at identifying the most impactful problems and shipping robust solutions on deadline, while also mentoring colleagues through workshops and one-to-one coaching. Equally comfortable with R, SQL and Python, he bridges research and product needs to turn complex bioinformatics workflows into reproducible, user-friendly tools. Off-hours curiosity keeps him a serial learner—currently reading genomics literature, tendon rehab research, and practical parenting survival tips.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (M.S.), Bioinformatics at Lund University
English, Swedish, Chinese
Github Skills (48)
shiny-server10
vcf-files10
normalization10
limma10
bioconductor10
bioinformatics10
singularity9
visualization9
nextflow9
nf-core9
diagnostics9
rna-seq9
quantitative9
pipeline8
ide8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Jakob37/Hands-off-Chinese
May 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:1 release, 173 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
Jakob37/Checklist-templates
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:139 pushes, 2 branches, 2 tags in 1 year 10 months
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