Roman Hillje
Software Engineer at Benchling
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRoman Hillje is a software engineer with a decade of experience at the intersection of software engineering, bioinformatics, and data visualization, currently building products at Benchling in Amsterdam. He combines a strong academic foundation in biotechnology (B.Sc. and M.Sc. from TU Braunschweig) with hands-on engineering to translate complex biological problems into intuitive, data-driven interfaces. His work emphasizes making experimental data accessible and actionable for researchers through thoughtful visualization and tooling. Roman is comfortable across the stack and brings domain expertise that helps bridge wet-lab needs and scalable software design. He maintains an active online presence (personal site, GitHub, Twitter), signaling engagement with the broader developer and bioinformatics communities. Colleagues value his ability to turn technical nuance into practical features that improve scientific workflows.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biotechnology, 1.8, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biotechnology, 1.8 at Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig
Russian, French, Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (188)
seq10
genomics10
rna-seq10
r-package10
decoder10
single-cell-genomics10
bioinformatics10
cran10
encoder9
pandas9
dataframes9
asterisk9
seurat9
python9
transcriptomics9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
romanhaa/cerebroPrepare
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
R package containing functions to prepare single-cell transcriptomics data saved in a Seurat object for visualization in Cerebro, as well as perform few analytical procedures.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 113 pushes in 8 months
r-packagevisualizationsingle-cell-genomicscerebroseurat
romanhaa/Cerebro
Jan 2019 - Nov 2021
Visualization of scRNA-seq data.
Contributions:3 releases, 231 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 10 months
scrna-seqbioinformaticsscrna-seq-dataseqvisualization
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