Milan Malfait
Senior Research Software Engineer at UCL Advanced Research Computing (ARC)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMilan Malfait is a Senior Research Software Engineer based in London with eight years of experience building robust, scalable tools for computational biology and single-cell omics analysis. Currently at UCL Advanced Research Computing, he bridges high-performance research infrastructure with open-source software development, having progressed from research roles at Ghent University and ULB where he implemented methods as production-ready packages. A bioinformatics-trained engineer (MSc degrees with top distinctions) and PhD student, he combines deep domain knowledge in single-cell transcriptomics with practical DevOps and data-science skills. Notably, his background spans both academia and industry—from GMP peptide process work to teaching statistics—making him fluent at translating complex research questions into reproducible, user-friendly software.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Bioinformatics and Modelling, Greatest distinction, Master of Science - MS, Bioinformatics and Modelling, Greatest distinction at Université libre de BruxellesHigh school, Mathematics - sciences, High school, Mathematics - sciences at Koninklijk Atheneum MortselMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Bio-engineering, Great Distinction, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Bio-engineering, Great Distinction at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dutch, French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (175)
experimental-design10
seq10
anova10
knitr10
gene-expression10
bioconductor10
genomics10
bookdown10
r10
quarto10
linear-models10
rna-seq10
differential-expression10
r-package10
stable10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
milanmlft/todo
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 18 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year 1 month
UCL-ARC/carpentries-quarto
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
Carpentries lessons in Quarto
Contributions:33 reviews, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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