Oriol Arocas
Senior Data Scientist
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolOriol Arocas is a Senior Data Scientist and bioinformatician with a PhD in Neuroscience and 8–9 years of experience building scalable NGS and ML solutions across academia and industry to accelerate target identification and clinical decision-making. He combines hands-on wet-lab expertise (electrophysiology, scRNA-seq, CRISPR) with production-grade computational skills (Nextflow, AWS HealthOmics, Docker/Kubernetes) to deliver end-to-end pipelines, predictive models, and interactive visualisations for pharma and biotech. At Clarivate and BenevolentAI he led automation of bulk and single-cell workflows, spatial transcriptomics deconvolution, and ML-driven biomarker prioritisation for late-phase clinical questions. He has a strong publication record and a track record of mentoring and cross-functional collaboration, often translating complex biological experiments into reusable, testable software components. Notably, he has combined time-series neural data and multi-omics integration in operational pipelines that halve data ingestion turnaround times, making translational insights reproducible and actionable. Based in Barcelona, he thrives at the intersection of biology, data science, and drug discovery.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biomedical Sciences, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biomedical Sciences at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaMaster of Science (MSc), Neuroscience, Master of Science (MSc), Neuroscience at Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences - LMU MunichUniversity College London
Catalan, Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (7)
anatomy7
neuroscience6
python5
visualization5
wdl3
pipeline3
reproducible-science3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
opavon/PAG_scRNAseq_analysis
Apr 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:292 commits, 177 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
opavon/ThesisTemplate
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.