Rintze Zelle
Senior Research Scientist - Bioinformatics
Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolRintze Zelle is a Senior Research Scientist in bioinformatics with 17 years of experience applying metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and quantitative microbial physiology to industrial yeast strains and fermentation processes. He helped found and still supports Lallemand’s bioinformatics group, coordinating microbial next-generation sequencing and building the hardware and software stacks for applied R&D. His background spans hands-on metabolic pathway and redox engineering for cellulosic bioethanol to production-focused bioinformatics pipelines, bridging wet lab and computational work. An active open-source developer and longtime maintainer, he notably contributed to the Citation Style Language and to Zotero, improving testing, translators, and UI features for widely used academic tools. He combines rigorous academic training (cum laude BSc/MSc, PhD work at TU Delft) with practical industry impact and frequent peer review for leading microbiology and biotechnology journals. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, reproducible solutions that connect sequencing data to fermentation-scale decision making.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Christelijk Lyceum Delft (secondary education)BSc and MSc (both cum laude), Life Science & Technology, BSc and MSc (both cum laude), Life Science & Technology at Delft University of TechnologyDe Wegwijzer (primary education)
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
testing10
rspec10
user-interface10
translater10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
ruby10
bibliography10
translate10
xml10
translator10
translators10
test-automation10
sharedpreferences9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
citation-style-language/styles
Mar 2011 - Oct 2021
Official repository for Citation Style Language (CSL) citation styles.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:46 reviews, 2494 commits, 2540 PRs in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Rintze primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and ensuring the quality of the CSL style repository. Their commits demonstrate modifications to the RSpec test suite, including adjustments to existing tests and the addition of new tests, to cover the expected behavior of the CSL styles. They improved the testing process by addressing licensing validation and ISSN comparison. The changes involved modifications to test files and the `spec_helper.rb` file.
citationcitation-style-languagebibliographycsscitations
zotero/translators
Jun 2010 - Oct 2012
Zotero Translators
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 13 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rintze primarily contributed to the Zotero Translators repository, focusing on the PubMed Central translator. Their work involved updating the translator to handle HTTPS addresses, eliminate E4X, and pull PDF files when not available in the XML. Furthermore, the user added support for table of contents and search results within the translator, and added test cases for the PubMed Central translator and YouTube.js. They also eliminated E4X in YouTube.js and made incremental improvements to the Flickr.js translator.
translatorstranslationzotero
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