Rasko Leinonen
Senior Product Owner at CSC - IT Center for Science
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolRasko Leinonen is a seasoned software leader and product owner with over two decades of experience delivering large-scale bioinformatics and data infrastructure, currently leading product efforts at CSC in Helsinki. He spent nearly two decades at EMBL-EBI coordinating development of the European Nucleotide Archive—one of the world’s largest public scientific data archives holding petabytes of sequence data—and has blended hands-on engineering with cross-institutional collaboration through INSDC partnerships. His background spans research and industry roles (including FinnGen, VEIL.AI and KONE), giving him deep expertise in data submission, archival, processing and exchange pipelines for life sciences. Known for translating complex genomic data workflows into reliable, production-ready services, he pairs technical depth with product-level strategy and stakeholder alignment. An MSc in Information Technology underpins a career that quietly bridges academia, national genomics initiatives and commercial engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Information Technology, Master of Science (MSc), Information Technology at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
Github Skills (55)
json-api10
file-format10
sequencing10
command-line10
java-api10
sequence10
java9
specification9
api9
flat-file9
xml9
fasta8
genomics8
bam8
portal7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
enasequence/webin-cli
Feb 2018 - Nov 2021
Webin command line submission program.
Contributions:2 releases, 47 reviews, 277 commits in 3 years 9 months
command-line
enasequence/pipelite
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 728 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 5 months
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