Sebastian Niehus
Software Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting
Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Niehus is a software consultant with a decade of experience specializing in bioinformatics and the development of population-scale variant calling algorithms for the human genome. He holds a PhD (magna cum laude) in Bioinformatics from Freie Universität Berlin and has combined academic rigor with practical engineering in roles at research institutes and now TNG Technology Consulting. His work spans reproducible build and release automation—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Bioconda recipes where he modernized PopDel packaging and dynamic versioning—and hands-on algorithm implementation for genomics. Comfortable bridging research and production, he focuses on reliable, testable pipelines and reproducible deployments for large-scale genomic analyses. Based in Lower Saxony, Germany, he brings a research-driven mindset to consulting engagements, often optimizing tooling and workflows that are easy to maintain in collaborative environments.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Magna cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Magna cum laude at Freie Universität Berlin
Github Skills (8)
automation10
conda10
automations10
gnu-make10
makefile10
package-management9
bash9
bioinformatics8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:9 commits, 13 PRs, 8 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on updating and maintaining the build process for the PopDel recipe within the Bioconda repository. Their contributions involved modifying the `Makefile` and `build.sh` files to update software versions, adapt tests, and integrate version management. This included ensuring the build script dynamically retrieves the software version and integrates it into the build process and removing the need for a separate patch file by setting the date and version dynamically.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
serosko/BAMQC
Nov 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 release, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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