Salvador Capella-gutierrez
Director Of The Technologies For Biomedical Research Lab at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolSalvador Capella-Gutierrez is a bioinformatics leader with 16 years of experience who directs the Technologies for Biomedical Research Lab at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and serves as CTO of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute. He combines deep technical expertise in phylogenomics and phylogenetic tool development with hands-on software engineering—contributing backend work to widely used projects like the ete toolkit and the PhylomeDB API. His career blends academic rigor (PhD in Bioinformatics) with operational leadership, having led INB teams across major Spanish research centres and contributed to ELIXIR governance. Salvador is especially focused on creating robust computational methods that translate into experimentally validated biological insights, a theme visible since his postdoc biomarker platform work. He also brings business and strategy acumen from executive education in science-to-technology translation, enabling him to bridge research, infrastructure and applied impact.
16 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioinformatics at Centre for Genomic Regulation - Pompeu Fabra UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Bioinformatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Bioinformatics at Universitat Pompeu FabraExecutive Education program Accelerate: Building Business from Science and Technology, Executive Education program Accelerate: Building Business from Science and Technology at IE Business SchoolUniversitat Politècnica de València
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
api10
python10
database-design10
apidoc10
mysql10
phylogenetics9
tree-structure7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
etetoolkit/ete
Sep 2010 - Sep 2010
Python package for building, comparing, annotating, manipulating and visualising trees. It provides a comprehensive API and a collection of command line tools, including utilities to work with the NCBI taxonomy tree.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 comment, 2 issues in 12 days
Contributions summary:Salvador primarily contributed to the development of the PhylomeDB API, focusing on database interactions and data retrieval. Their work involved implementing functions for querying the database, converting data formats, and retrieving sequences. Furthermore, the user added tests and refined existing functions, indicating a focus on API functionality and data management. The user's commits also touched on migrating existing code and updating associated tables.
comparingapitreesphylogeneticspython
Gabaldonlab/phylomizer
Jan 2014 - Feb 2017
Contributions:79 commits, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
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