Luca Venturini
Lead Bioinformatics Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLuca Venturini is a Lead Bioinformatics Engineer based in London with a decade of experience translating genomics research into robust computational pipelines. He combines a Ph.D. in Applied Biotechnologies with deep Python and bioinformatics expertise to deliver production-grade analyses at Genomics England, where he progressed from engineer to lead. His career includes influential roles at Earlham Institute and the Natural History Museum, and he co-led genome annotation work that contributed to the reference assembly for hexaploid wheat. Comfortable bridging research and engineering, Luca focuses on scalable, reproducible workflows for large genomic datasets and mentoring cross-functional teams. He brings a rare mix of academic authorship and hands-on production delivery, often working on problems at the intersection of genetics, plant biology, and software engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Biotechnologies, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Biotechnologies at Università degli Studi di Verona
English, Spanish, German, Italian
Github Skills (194)
package-management10
seq10
forge10
structural-variation10
genomes10
gene-expression10
genomics10
computational-biology10
conda-forge10
rna-seq10
bioconda10
genome10
cactus10
conda10
sequence-alignment10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lucventurini/mikado
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
Mikado is a lightweight Python3 pipeline whose purpose is to facilitate the identification of expressed loci from RNA-Seq data and to select the best models in each locus.
Contributions:23 PRs, 447 pushes, 99 branches in 1 year 7 months
locusmikadopipelinepurposebioinformatics
lucventurini/pytritex
Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:352 pushes, 2 branches, 4 comments in 2 years 3 months
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