Vivek Bhardwaj
Group Leader Assistant Professor at Faculty of Science (Utrecht University)
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarVivek Bhardwaj is an Assistant Professor and group leader at Utrecht University with 11 years of experience bridging computational biology, single-cell (epi)genomics, and machine learning. He leads an interdisciplinary quantitative biology and data integration lab, building teams that deliver reproducible software and integrative genomics analyses. A hands-on developer and maintainer, he has contributed backend fixes and documentation to prominent bioinformatics tools like deepTools and pyGenomeTracks, improving plotting reliability, encoding robustness, and usability. Vivek combines academic rigor with practical software engineering, routinely translating complex sequencing workflows into well-documented, production-ready tools. Based in Utrecht, he focuses on driving cross-divisional collaborations that turn rich genomic datasets into actionable biological insight.
11 years of coding experience
Hindi, English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (11)
bioinformatics10
python10
documentation10
matplotlib10
setuptools9
package-management9
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
pep8
github8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
deeptools/deepTools
Dec 2015 - May 2018
Tools to process and analyze deep sequencing data.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Documentation Specialist
Backend Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:115 commits, 21 PRs, 73 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Vivek primarily corrected typos and improved the clarity of messages within the codebase, suggesting a focus on code quality and readability. They also made modifications to documentation files, including the addition of examples and screenshots for the galaxy interface. The user's contributions span both the technical aspects of the project, as well as documentation, which is common with maintainers.
chip-seqpythonpipelinesequencing-datangs
deeptools/pyGenomeTracks
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
python module to plot beautiful and highly customizable genome browser tracks
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Vivek contributed to the pygenometracks project by fixing UTF-8 encoding issues and removing outdated code references. They also addressed issues related to plotting formats. Furthermore, they made setup modifications and updated version requirements to ensure proper functionality, and improved the code quality via PEP8 fixes. This user primarily focused on maintaining and refining the core functionality of the plotting module.
genomepythongenome-browserbrowserplot
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