Julien Lajugie
Associate Director, Bioinformatics Engineering
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulien Lajugie is an accomplished bioinformatics engineering leader with 16 years of experience building and operationalizing genomics software and data pipelines, currently serving as Associate Director at Illumina in San Diego. He combines full-stack development (Python/Django, React, C#, Docker) with hands-on DevOps and regulatory validation expertise to deliver scalable secondary analysis, annotation, and “sample-to-answer” microservice platforms. Julien has led large, cross-functional teams to implement CI/CD per pull-request, verification frameworks for aligners and variant callers in FDA/ISO contexts, and a multi-developer analytics framework that surfaces DRAGEN quality metrics to scientists. He brings a rare blend of deep software engineering, bioinformatics algorithm development, and production release discipline, underpinned by earlier work creating GenPlay and MethylPhase for genome and epigenome analysis. Notably, he has bridged research and regulated product delivery by embedding automated testing and deployment practices into bioinformatics toolchains.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat S, French High School diploma with honors, mathematics, physics and biology, Baccalauréat S, French High School diploma with honors, mathematics, physics and biology at Lycée Geoffroy Saint HilaireMaster, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Polytech Paris-Sud
French, English
Github Skills (31)
jenkins-api-plugin9
csharp9
deprecated9
visual-studio8
jenkins-plugin8
code-analysis7
roslyn7
jenkins7
dotnet6
github5
testing4
compiler4
aws3
cli3
cli-tools3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JulienLajugie/add-missing-init
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
JulienLajugie/ghprb-plugin
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
github pull requests builder plugin for Jenkins
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 days
jenkinsjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-pluginbuilderplugin-builder
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