Matthias Blum
Project Leader at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthias Blum is a project leader and versatile full-stack software engineer with a decade of experience building and operating bioinformatics software and data pipelines, currently leading the InterPro/Pfam projects at EMBL-EBI. He combines hands-on development of REST APIs, web interfaces and data warehouses with operational responsibility for production workflows, grant deliverables and mentoring a small engineering team. His background spans high-throughput sequencing analysis on HPC clusters, large-scale NGS data management (30,000+ profiles) and QC/visualisation tools such as QC Genomics. Comfortable across Python, JavaScript, R and C, he has a track record modernising legacy systems and shipping curator-facing web applications. Based in Cambridge, he brings a rare mix of domain expertise in computational biology and practical experience turning complex biological datasets into reliable, user-focused services.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Licence degree, Biology, Licence degree, Biology at University of Strasbourg
English, French, German
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Github Skills (51)
visualization10
cancer-genomics10
genetic10
procedures10
bioinformatics10
world-of-warcraft9
diagram9
conda9
api9
rest-api9
data-visualization8
bioconda8
python8
azerothcore8
web-components8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ebi-pf-team/novo-t2d
Oct 2019 - Feb 2023
Scripts for populating database
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
databasepopulating
ProteinsWebTeam/jira2pdf
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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