Rune Friborg - Staff Engineer at QIAGEN

Rune Friborg

Staff Engineer at QIAGEN

Central Denmark Region, Denmark

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Rune Friborg is a Staff Engineer with 12+ years of experience specializing in high-performance computing, NGS algorithm development, and cross-platform C/C++/Java systems. He has driven production-grade UI and library development while architecting scalable HPC infrastructures—having led one of Denmark’s fastest parallel file system installations supporting multi-PB storage and tens of GB/s throughput. At QIAGEN he focuses on performance-sensitive problems like de novo assembly, k-mer indexing and taxonomic profiling, while maintaining frameworks that enable those features across Windows, macOS and Linux. His academic background (PhD in Computer Science) and work on PyCSP reflect deep expertise in concurrency models and asynchronous communication, applied both in research and production. Colleagues value his pragmatic blend of algorithmic rigor, systems-level thinking, and hands-on implementation across clusters, GPUs and distributed storage.

13 years of coding experience

8 years of employment as a software developer

Cand.Scient, Computer Science, Cand.Scient, Computer Science at University of Copenhagen

Github Skills (6)

structural-variation9

pairwise9

sequence-alignment9

genomics9

bioinformatics9

go7

Programming languages (2)

CPython

Github contributions (5)

runefriborg/parallel-ssh-cmd

May 2014 - Jun 2017

Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 3 years 1 month

runefriborg/pycsp

Apr 2016 - Aug 2021

Go to https://pycsp.github.io/ for more recent work on PyCSP

Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 20 pushes in 5 years 5 months

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