Miguel Pinheiro
Senior Software Developer at Critical TechWorks (BMW Group)
Tondela, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel Pinheiro is a Senior Software Developer with a PhD in Bioinformatics and 11+ years of experience building production-grade software across safety-critical automotive systems and national-scale public health platforms. He currently architects and implements high-performance C++ daemons and asynchronous, distributed components for next-generation connected vehicle ECUs at Critical TechWorks, while previously designing genomics surveillance pipelines and clinical-grade bioinformatics tools used by national labs and referenced in ECDC guidance. Comfortable bridging research and production, he pairs strong algorithmic thinking with pragmatic engineering—authoring fast, scalable pipelines in Python and C++ and championing modern testing and code-quality practices. His work has delivered tangible public impact, from neonatal metabolic screening deployed across multiple countries to INSaFLU-driven influenza and SARS-CoV-2 surveillance. A natural mentor and educator, he has taught and supervised postgraduate students while continuously proposing architectural improvements that improve reliability in both healthcare and automotive domains.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at Universidade de Aveiro
Github Skills (54)
predictor10
blast9
bioinformatics9
bootstrap-modal9
genomics9
fasta9
phylogeny8
htslib8
structural-variation8
sequence-alignment7
indexing7
pairwise7
ssa7
gwas7
boostrap7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
monsanto-pinheiro/processCLI
May 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
monsanto-pinheiro/countDNABox
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
fastq-filesdnadna-sequencesfastafastq
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