Lucas Van Dijk
Senior Software Engineer at PacBio
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolLucas Van Dijk is a Senior Software Engineer and computational scientist with 15 years of experience applying probabilistic modeling, ML, and high-performance computing to large-scale biological data. He has built production-ready pipelines and distributed tools—publishing packages across PyPI, crates.io and Bioconda—and implemented novel algorithms (including a 4.1x faster partial order alignment in Rust and a 360x speedup for recombination-aware HMMs) that enabled genome-scale analyses. At the Broad Institute he integrated multi-omic datasets and curated phenotypes for 10,000 biobank participants to discover disease biomarkers, and now brings that expertise to PacBio. Equally comfortable in C++, Rust, Python and cloud-native workflows, he also translates technical results to clinical collaborators, bridging research and reproducible production software. An unassuming but impactful contributor, he combines deep algorithmic insight with practical engineering to turn computationally infeasible problems into routine analyses.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical Engineering at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied SciencesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (134)
hugo10
slurm10
package-management10
python10
rest-framework10
vispy10
computational-biology10
reproducible-science10
singularity10
django-rest10
shell10
opengl10
bioconda10
cli10
text-editor10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
lrvdijk/bifrost
Feb 2020 - Oct 2023
Bifrost: Highly parallel construction and indexing of colored and compacted de Bruijn graphs
Contributions:23 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 8 months
parallelindexingbifrostcoloredgraphs
lrvdijk/bioconda-recipes
Dec 2016 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 33 pushes, 12 branches in 8 years
biocondabioinformaticsrecipesconda
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