Simon Van Heeringen
Data Science Software Engineer
Gelderland, Netherlands
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RockstarSimon Van Heeringen is a Data Science Software Engineer with 16 years of experience, currently applying his bioinformatics and engineering expertise at Alliander in the Netherlands. As a Principal Bioinformatician on GitHub and an active contributor to the high-profile bioconda-recipes repository, he brings deep knowledge of package management, build systems, and reproducible bioinformatics tooling. He combines hands-on skills in shell scripting and makefile patching with a strong focus on making complex scientific software reliably deployable. Based in Gelderland, Simon is comfortable bridging research-grade bioinformatics and production data science workflows, often surfacing practical fixes that keep pipelines running smoothly.
15 years of coding experience
English
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Github Skills (11)
bioinformatics10
sh10
conda10
script10
shell10
package-management10
scripting10
build-system9
gnu-make8
makefile8
python5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Feb 2016 - Jul 2021
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 148 commits, 151 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the bioconda-recipes repository by adding and modifying recipes for various bioinformatics tools. They focused on building and configuring these recipes using shell scripts and patching existing makefiles and compilation processes. The contributions include adding recipes for new tools, fixing build issues, and adapting existing recipes to work correctly within the bioconda environment. The user demonstrated proficiency in package management and build systems.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
simonvh/pita
Feb 2013 - Apr 2022
Pipeline to improve transcript annotation based on RNA-seq and ChIP-seq data.
Contributions:1 release, 199 commits, 5 PRs in 9 years 3 months
chip-seqpipelinegenomicschipbioinformatics
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