Pieter Lukasse
Director at SE4BIO - Software Engineering for Biotech
Florida, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPieter Lukasse is a director and founder focused on biotech and bioinformatics, combining a formal MSc in Bioinformatics with a computer science background and more than two decades of software development experience. He leads SE4BIO while drawing on hands-on engineering and team leadership roles at Dana-Farber and The Hyve, where he helped build production-ready NGS pipelines and data-sharing solutions for cancer genomics. A pragmatic full-stack engineer, Pieter has contributed front-end and back-end improvements to the widely used cBioPortal project, improving UI configurability and data retrieval for oncology researchers. He excels at turning complex multi-omics requirements into maintainable, reproducible software and has a track record of mentoring teams across Europe and the US. Based in Florida, he combines entrepreneurial drive with deep domain knowledge in translational research and a longtime commitment to open collaborative tooling.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics at Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte
English, Dutch, Portuguese
Github Skills (15)
javascript10
cancer-genomics10
react10
mobx9
backend9
debug9
debugging9
user-interface8
css8
data-manipulation8
html8
typescript-types7
github7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cBioPortal/cbioportal
Oct 2015 - Jun 2019
cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 187 commits, 135 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Pieter primarily focused on fixing bugs and implementing improvements within the cBioPortal codebase. Their commits reveal modifications to several JavaScript files, particularly within the `pancancer_study_summary` directory, suggesting a focus on refining features related to the study's summary views. The user addressed issues related to calculating frequencies, adjusting slider functionality, and optimizing data retrieval processes within the user interface. The commits demonstrate a solid understanding of the codebase and its underlying data management logic.
precision-medicinesciencecbioportalgenomicscancer
cBioPortal/cbioportal-frontend
Oct 2017 - Jun 2019
React Frontend of cBioPortal :tada:
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 17 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Pieter primarily focused on front-end development tasks, modifying React components and related configuration files. Key contributions involved refactoring URLs, making gene sets configurable, and renaming query-related elements to improve clarity. They also cleaned up older mutationMapper and clustering code. This indicates a focus on improving the user interface, configuration, and codebase maintainability of the cBioPortal frontend.
reactcbioportalreact-frontendmobxfrontend
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