Jelle Scholtalbers
Full Stack Developer Laboratory Data Management & Integration
France
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Top SchoolJelle Scholtalbers is a Full Stack Developer specializing in laboratory data management and integration with 11 years of experience building production-grade bioinformatics platforms. As core developer of the Lab Integrated Data platform and former technical lead at EMBL, he combines back-end API and RDBMS expertise with practical skills in Perl, Python, SQL and tools like Galaxy and GBrowse. His contributions to major open-source projects such as Galaxy and Bioconda show a focus on automating build pipelines, improving dataset APIs, and wrapping complex bioinformatics tools for reproducible workflows. He has deep domain knowledge in plant genetics, NGS and annotation, enabling him to translate experimental needs into robust data solutions. Comfortable moving between research and production environments, he’s known for pragmatic automation that streamlines tool deployment and data handling. Based in France, he often bridges hands-on engineering with lab-facing requirements, turning messy experimental data into integrated, testable systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science, Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Applied Science, Bioinformatics at Hanze
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Github Skills (23)
tooling10
package-management10
python10
apidoc10
scripting10
conda10
bash10
workflow-engine10
script10
api10
build-automation10
bioinformatics10
galaxy10
sh10
shell10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/galaxy
Jul 2015 - Sep 2023
Data intensive science for everyone.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 36 PRs, 90 comments in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jelle contributed to the back-end functionality of the Galaxy project. Their work included exposing dataset states through the API, updating data library upload processes, and implementing filtering options for API invocations. They also modified the dataset API to include an `copied_from_ldda_id` field. The user's contributions focused primarily on improving the API and data handling capabilities within the Galaxy platform.
pythonsciencepipelinednadata-science
bgruening/galaxytools
Feb 2016 - Nov 2019
:microscope::books: Galaxy Tool wrappers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 11 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jelle contributed to the bismark tool wrappers within the Galaxy tools repository, updating the bismark tool to version 0.19.1 and then to 0.20.0. These updates involved code cleanup, adjustments to the galaxy profile and adding and testing relevant tests. The code changes focused on the Bismark mapping, Methylation Extractor, Deduplication, and Pretty Report wrappers, suggesting improvements and adaptations to the tool's functionality.
cheminformaticsmicroscopegalaxyprojgalaxygalaxy-tool
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