Markus Meier
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMarkus Meier is a Staff Software Engineer in Munich with a decade of experience bridging computational biology research and production-grade engineering. He holds a PhD in Computational Biology and moved from developing sensitive protein- and DNA-motif discovery tools in top research labs to shipping reliable AI and multi-robot coordination systems in industry. At Google he progressed from Software Engineer to Staff, bringing strengths in Python and C++ as well as in testing and integration to scale complex systems. His background includes configuring large Hadoop-based data pipelines and contributing to the well-known HHsuite project, reflecting a disciplined focus on code quality and reproducible science. Colleagues rely on him for translating statistical models into maintainable services and for improving system stability in safety-critical robotics stacks.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Biology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Bioinformatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Bioinformatics at Technical University of Munich
Github Skills (6)
flake10
python10
bioinformatics9
text-align6
text-alignment6
cpp4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
soedinglab/hh-suite
Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
Remote protein homology detection suite.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 136 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Markus primarily contributed to the codebase by performing flake8 checks and addressing identified style issues. They made several commits focusing on linting Python scripts, specifically within the scripts directory. These changes suggest a focus on code quality, consistency, and adherence to coding standards, likely within a backend development context, aligning with the repository's description as a protein homology detection suite.
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soedinglab/PEnG-motif
Nov 2016 - Aug 2017
PEnG-motif is an open-source software package for searching statistically overrepresented motifs (position specific weight matrices, PWMs) in a set of DNA sequences.
Contributions:111 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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