Michał Lorenc
Bioinformatics Specialist
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichał Lorenc is a Bioinformatics Specialist with nearly two decades of experience and 11 years of focused professional work building scalable, reproducible pipelines for large and complex genomic datasets. He combines deep bioinformatics domain expertise—leading chromosome-level assemblies, pangenome construction, comparative genomics and ChIP/ RNA-seq analyses—with strong software engineering practices like parallel processing, polyglot persistence and containerized reproducibility (Docker/Singularity). At QUT he contributed to high-profile publications (including Nature Plants), built custom hybrid assembly and Hi-C workflows, and automated packaging for Bioconda to streamline tool distribution. Comfortable across Python, HPC and cloud environments, he also mentors PhD students and translates validation requirements into robust testing and deployment practices. He is distinctive for turning production-scale biological bottlenecks into engineered solutions, often by writing custom wrappers that partition and distribute data across cores or nodes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Bioinformatics at Center for Bioinformatics of the University Hamburg (Germany)Bioinformatics - Structural Chemistry, Bioinformatics - Structural Chemistry at Eskitis InstituteBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Information Technology at Hamburg University of Technology (Germany)
English, German, Polish
Github Skills (9)
bioinformatics10
conda10
bash10
package-management10
yaml8
cmake7
git6
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Nov 2016 - Feb 2022
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:1 review, 96 commits, 118 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michał primarily contributed to recipe updates and the creation of new recipes for the bioconda channel. These contributions included modifying build scripts and updating meta.yaml files for various bioinformatics tools. The user also fixed dependencies, addressed linting problems, and updated existing recipes from external sources.
biocondacondabioinformaticspackage-management
mictadlo/mGSV-docker
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:18 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 13 days
genomeblobinstallationdockermaster
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