Summary
Paula Balcells is a frontend software engineer with nine years of experience blending bioinformatics research and product-grade web development, currently working at Cropster in Copenhagen. She has built design systems and web components across React, Angular, and Vue during her time at Roche and brings a research-driven mindset from roles at UPF, Illumina, EMBL-EBI and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Trained in bioinformatics and cognitive systems with additional design and full-stack bootcamp credentials, she focuses on human-centered AI and usable interfaces. Paula excels at translating complex scientific problems into elegant front-end solutions and often bridges research and production teams—an asset not obvious from a typical engineering resume.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Bioinformatics, Bachelor's degree Bioinformatics at ESCI-UPF
UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Full Stack Web Development Bootcamp Computer Programming, Full Stack Web Development Bootcamp Computer Programming at Ironhack
Technical University of Denmark
Master's degree Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media, Master's degree Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Catalan, Spanish, English, German, French