Patrick Van Zalm
Senior Software Engineer at Biognosys
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Van Zalm is a senior software engineer and proteomics bioinformatician with ~5 years' experience building scalable data pipelines and analytical tools for LC-MS body-fluid studies in neurodegenerative and immunological disease. He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics/Proteomics and combines hands-on sample prep and mass-spec (Thermo QE, Bruker timsTOF) experience with production-grade engineering—designing Airflow/Kubernetes ETL, PostgreSQL-backed workflows, and HPC analytical pipelines that processed 100+ TB and cut runtimes by ~90%. At Boston Children’s he translated complex LC-MS datasets into reproducible R/Python analytics and R Shiny apps that supported publications and a patentable reanalysis method; he now applies that domain depth at Biognosys. Patrick’s strength is bridging wet-lab nuance and software reliability to surface biologically meaningful signals from noisy proteomics data.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics / Proteomics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics / Proteomics at Maastricht UniversityBachelor's degree Psychobiology (neurosciences), Bachelor's degree Psychobiology (neurosciences) at University of Amsterdam
Github Skills (50)
mass-spectrometry8
htmlwidgets8
shotgun8
dia8
react-component8
mass7
bioinformatics7
form-validation6
command-line-interface6
spectra6
react5
pipeline5
calibration5
uniprot5
graphical-user-interface5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SteenOmicsLab/MGHPCC
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:61 commits in 11 months
PatrickvanZalm/IMPACC_Proteomics_Rshiny
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year
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