Robin Andeer
Staff Software Engineer at Runway
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRobin Andeer is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient web platforms and elegant user interfaces, currently shaping research-driven creative tools at Runway. He has led engineering efforts from e-commerce marketplace launches and API operations at Hedvig to clinical genomics portals and automation tools at SciLifeLab, blending frontend expertise with backend and operational rigor. A pragmatic leader and mentor, Robin drives cross-functional teams, hiring, and onboarding while promoting best practices and continuous improvement. He contributes to open-source bioinformatics tooling (notably enhancing MultiQC with visualization and data-cleaning features), reflecting a rare mix of life-sciences domain knowledge and modern web engineering. Based in New York, he balances high-impact engineering with offbeat hobbies—bread baking and gymnastics—bringing curiosity and steady hands to complex problems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Bioteknik, Master's degree Bioteknik at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyStudentexamen Naturvetenskap, Studentexamen Naturvetenskap at Internationella Gymnasiet/International College
Swedish, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
data-visualizations10
bioinformatics10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
gatk10
python10
samtools9
regular-expression9
flask-mongoengine6
mongodb6
nosql6
mongoengine6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
MultiQC/MultiQC
Sep 2015 - Jul 2017
Aggregate results from bioinformatics analyses across many samples into a single report.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 6 PRs, 28 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Robin made contributions focused on enhancing the functionality and structure of the multiqc library. Their work involved modifying the logging format for improved debugging, adding a new GATK module to process and visualize variant analysis data, and refactoring code using a mixin for improved code organization. These changes included implementing a bargraph chart for better data representation and refactoring of the samtools module. The user also focused on the inclusion of TiTv ratios in the general table and implemented functionality for cleaning filenames with a regex match.
multiqcpythonpypianalysesbioconda
Clinical-Genomics/cgadmin
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 127 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
admin-dashboardadminadmin-interfaceportal
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