Kersten Breuer
Solution Lead at HMS | Data Science & Software Engineering Solutions
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolKersten Breuer is a solution lead and technical software architect with 8 years of experience designing data-driven, cloud-native microservice platforms for biomedical and life-science use cases. He has led teams and shaped architectures for national-scale projects such as the German Human Genome-Phenome Archive, focusing on developer productivity, event-driven design, and long-term innovation. With an academic background in bioinformatics and hands-on work automating large bioinformatics workflows and single-cell analysis, he comfortably bridges data science and clinical genomics requirements. Known for bringing security-first patterns (zero trust) and pragmatic tooling choices to petabyte-scale systems, he combines leadership and deep implementation experience to deliver auditable, production-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - M.Sc. Bioinformatics Major Molecular Biotechnology, Master of Science - M.Sc. Bioinformatics Major Molecular Biotechnology at Heidelberg University
Github Skills (130)
web-application10
raw-data10
phylogeny10
common-workflow-language10
bioinformatics10
gridengine9
pipeline9
fasta9
systems-biology9
testing9
slurm9
amazon-ecs9
docker-run9
python9
seq9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ghga-de/metadata-repository-service
Nov 2021 - Mar 2023
The Metadata Repository Service that serves as an abstraction layer on top of the Metadata Store.
Contributions:20 reviews, 14 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 4 months
repository-serviceservesmetadata-storemetadataon-top
CompEpigen/ChIPseq_workflows
Jan 2019 - Aug 2020
Workflows for processing of ChIP-seq, ChIPmentation, and Cut&Run data based on the Common Workflow Language
Contributions:6 releases, 51 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 6 months
chip-seqpipelinepipeline-frameworkworkflow-enginecut
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