Rasmus Ågren
Summary
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RockstarRasmus Burge is a systems-minded developer and bioinformatician in Stockholm with a decade of experience bridging wet-lab NGS workflows, lab automation, and backend software. He has progressed from hands-on library prep and GMP lab work to designing high-throughput automation at Hamilton Nordic and building bioinformatics systems at Karolinska Institutet. Technically fluent across workflow execution and file management, he has contributed backend fixes to the widely used Snakemake project, improving symlinking and duplicate-output handling. Rasmus thrives at the intersection of automation and analysis, translating practical lab constraints into robust software solutions. He is driven by challenges that deepen both biological insight and scalable infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
rep10
workflow-management10
file-management10
snakemake10
repr10
python10
scripting5
shell5
sh5
script5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
snakemake/snakemake
Oct 2016 - Nov 2018
This is the development home of the workflow management system Snakemake. For general information, see
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rasmus primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Snakemake workflow management system. Their work involved modifying the `jobs.py` and `workflow.py` files to implement and refine the "shadow" directory feature, specifically the "minimal" shadow depth option, which optimizes file symlinking. They also addressed bugs related to duplicate outputs and improved the handling of input files. The user's changes reflect an understanding of workflow execution and file management within the Snakemake framework.
snakemakereproducibilityworkflow-management
NBISweden/project_template
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
An example of how to organize files for a research project to increase reproducibility
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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