Roman Hillje
Software Engineer at Benchling
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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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
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (149)
rna-seq10
r-package10
single-cell-genomics10
visualization10
cran10
encoder9
r9
pandas9
python9
transcriptomics9
swiftui9
genomics9
statusbar9
chip-seq9
targets9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
romanhaa/cerebroApp
Mar 2019 - Nov 2021
R package containing the Cerebro application.
Contributions:6 releases, 286 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 8 months
rr-package
thehyve/genetics-sumstat-data
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Workflows for processing summary statistics files for Open Targets Genetics
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 8 months
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