Jules Jacobsen
Senior Software Developer at Queen Mary University of London
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJules Jacobsen is a Senior Software Developer based in Cambridge with 16 years of experience building bioinformatics and structural biology software, particularly for genomics and 3D protein data. He combines a PhD in Structural Biology (NMR) from Cambridge with strong Java engineering skills to deliver multi-tier applications, RESTful services, and curator-facing rich clients used in projects like UniProtKB. Jules has held senior roles at Queen Mary University and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and previously developed production systems at EBI and WorldPay, giving him a rare blend of research-grade data handling and enterprise engineering practice. He specializes in turning complex biological data models into robust, maintainable software that supports curation and validation workflows. Notably, his work has supported the integration of structural data into widely used biological knowledgebases, demonstrating impact beyond code into data quality and accessibility. He brings deep domain knowledge, pragmatic coding, and a track record of shipping tools that bridge wet-lab science and production-grade software.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Biochemistry with German, BSc, Biochemistry with German at Imperial College LondonPhD, Structural Biology - NMR, PhD, Structural Biology - NMR at University of Cambridge
German
Github Skills (127)
variants10
json-schema10
ontology10
semantic-web10
linkml10
shex10
shacl10
specification10
genomics10
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ontologies10
bam10
fasta10
protobuf10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
exomiser/svart
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
API for use in representing and manipulating genomic variation
Contributions:2 releases, 216 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 8 months
bioinformaticsapigenomicvariation
phenopackets/phenopacket-schema-fhir-interop
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
Interoperability library for Phenopackets schema and FHIR® standard
Contributions:14 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
interoperabilityphenopacketsfhir-standardfhir
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