Martin Beracochea
MGnify Production Project Leader at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMartin Beracochea is a software engineer and bioinformatics specialist with 14 years’ experience, currently leading MGnify Production at EMBL-EBI’s Microbiome Informatics team in Cambridge. He blends full-stack development skills with deep domain knowledge in microbiology and bioinformatics, and over the last two years has focused on building scalable pipelines for high-performance compute clusters. His background includes mentoring a Google Summer of Code project to orchestrate MGnify on distributed heterogeneous clusters, highlighting practical experience with distributed compute orchestration. Martin’s career spans research and industry roles across EMBL-EBI, Sophilabs and a biological research institute, giving him a rare mix of production-grade engineering and scientific rigor. He’s known for turning complex bioinformatics requirements into robust, scalable systems that run in demanding cluster environments.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Bioinformatics, Master's degree, Bioinformatics at Universidad de la RepúblicaLicenciatura en Ciencias Biológicas, Microbiología, Licenciatura en Ciencias Biológicas, Microbiología at Universidad de la Republica
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (184)
slurm10
package-management10
python10
genomics10
bacteria10
backbone10
nf-core10
nextflow10
gridengine10
workflow-description-language10
pipeline10
genome10
conda10
pure-python10
predictor10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mberacochea/emacs-config
Oct 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 24 pushes in 1 year 7 months
EBI-Metagenomics/miassembler
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 83 reviews, 32 PRs in 11 months
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