Kenzo-hugo Hillion
Backend Engineer & Community Member at Lenstra
Brittany, France
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Top SchoolKenzo-hugo Hillion is a backend engineer with nine years of experience specializing in bioinformatics and metagenomics, combining deep domain knowledge with production-grade Python and web development (Django, FastAPI, Vue.js). He has driven research-to-production projects at Institut Pasteur and the Institut Français de Bioinformatique, building reusable Django extensions for Galaxy integration and leading development of a metagenomics analysis library (moonstone) and catalog browser apps. Comfortable across the stack, he balances data-intensive analysis with robust engineering practices learned in industry roles, including code review and operational awareness. Based in Brittany, he brings a collaborative, community-minded approach—organizing hackathons and contributing tooling like ToolDog to bridge registries and analysis platforms. Notably, his career ties experimental wet-lab experience to software delivery, giving him a rare perspective on both data generation and scalable analysis pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M2 de Bioinformatique, Bio-informatique, M2 de Bioinformatique, Bio-informatique at Université de NantesMagistère de génétique, Génétique, Mention Très Bien, Magistère de génétique, Génétique, Mention Très Bien at Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII)
French, English
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Github Skills (67)
python10
energy10
genomes10
genomics10
pipeline10
phylogeny10
science10
data-science10
workflow-engine10
sequencing10
docker10
bioinformatics10
galaxy9
sustainability9
climate-science9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bio-tools/ToolDog
Dec 2016 - Mar 2018
Generating tool descriptors from bio.tools
Contributions:9 releases, 206 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 2 months
descriptorsbio
motleystate/dabeplech
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
Light library to perform request to different APIs
Contributions:17 releases, 5 reviews, 34 PRs in 1 year 6 months
apilightrequest
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