Jan-hinnerk Vogel
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Genentech
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolJan-hinnerk Vogel is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing cloud-native, event-driven platforms that accelerate bioinformatics and biopharma research. He blends deep domain knowledge in genomics and multimodal data with pragmatic system architecture, currently building intelligent workflow execution platforms (WDL/Nextflow) integrated with AWS to enable secure, scalable, AI-augmented decision making. A hands-on leader based in the Bay Area, he has driven digital transformation across the UK, Germany, and the US, guiding distributed teams and offshore partnerships to deliver production-grade data products. He champions AI as a force multiplier—shipping chatbots, assistants, and agentic systems that reduce cognitive load and enable self-service across complex scientific workflows. Notably, his engineering approach treats data as a product and emphasizes modular, event-driven design to make hypothesis-driven science reliable and auditable.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Msc, Bioinformatics, Msc, Bioinformatics at Freie Universität BerlinBachelor of Science (BS), Analytical Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS), Analytical Chemistry at Technische Universität Berlindiploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission or matriculation, Biology, Chemistry, diploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission or matriculation, Biology, Chemistry at Johanneum zu Luebeck
German, French
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Github Skills (83)
cancer-genomics10
genomics10
science10
visualization10
bioinformatics10
slurm9
python9
perl9
mkdocs9
filesystem9
htcondor9
teensy9
sphinx9
lsf9
rna-seq8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tweep/ensembl-hive-slurm
Feb 2018 - Dec 2023
Slurm Meadow for Ensembl Hive
Contributions:1 release, 14 PRs, 44 pushes in 5 years 10 months
slurm
tweep/pixLite16_and_LedLabs_configuration
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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