Luis De Figueiredo
Senior Bioinformatics Engineer
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis De Figueiredo is a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer with 13 years of experience building production-grade computational biology solutions across genomics, metagenomics and systems biology. He combines a deep academic pedigree in computational biology and metabolic network modelling with hands-on software engineering—designing workflow systems (WDL/Cromwell), data lakes, and cloud-deployed pipelines for rare-disease and microbial genomics. His career spans academia and industry at EMBL-EBI, Congenica, Evonetix, Microbiotica and now Genomics England, reflecting a rare ability to translate complex modelling and NMR/simulation methods into scalable bioinformatics tooling. Equally comfortable in R, Java and modern pipeline languages, he’s driven performance optimization and legacy migrations while enabling bioinformaticians to query and exploit large annotation datasets. A fast adopter of next-generation sequencing technologies, he often bridges the gap between theoretical metabolic pathway computation and practical genomic analysis in production environments.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Escola Salesiana de ManiquePhD Computational Biology, PhD Computational Biology at Friedrich Schiller University JenaDiploma Biological Engineering, Diploma Biological Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (53)
ecology10
image-processing10
image10
semantic-web10
ncbi10
genomes10
microbial-genomics10
rdf10
computer-vision10
owl10
bacteria10
genome-annotation10
python9
bioinformatics9
genomics8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LuisFF/dgeclust
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Hierarchical Non-Parametric Bayesian Clustering of Digital Expression Data
Contributions:2 PRs, 37 pushes, 3 branches in 2 days
parametricnon-parametrichierarchicaldata-storageclustering
LuisFF/pymimage
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Python package for reading microscope images in various formats. Utilises the Bio-Formats library.
Contributions:8 PRs, 12 pushes, 9 branches in 1 day
image-analysispythonmicroscopeimagingimage-processing
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