Yasset Perez-riverol
Technical Lead Of Proteomics Resources at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolYasset Perez-riverol is a technical lead and software architect with 17 years’ experience building large-scale bioinformatics platforms, currently heading Proteomics Resources at EMBL-EBI in Cambridge. He leads development of PRIDE, one of the world’s primary repositories for mass spectrometry proteomics, and drives complementary resources like PRIDE Cluster and OmicsDI to help researchers discover and reuse complex omics datasets. His background blends deep computational proteomics, machine learning for peptide/protein prediction, and hands-on engineering—extending to DevOps work on community bioinformatics containers. He has a PhD in Biochemistry and formal training in software engineering and Java, which underpins his ability to bridge research and production-grade systems. Known for shipping reproducible, high-performance APIs and tooling, he often turns algorithmic ideas into robust community-facing services. Outside of leadership, he contributes practical container and CI improvements that keep open-source bioinformatics infrastructure reproducible and scalable.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Expert Developer, Java Programming, Expert Developer, Java Programming at NIIT: India Knowledge CenterB.Sc. Software Engineering, Computer Science, B.Sc. Software Engineering, Computer Science at Polytechnic Institute (ISPJAE) of Havana, CubaPhD in Biological Science, Biochemistry, PhD, PhD in Biological Science, Biochemistry, PhD at University of Havana
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
bioinformatics10
sh10
script10
docker10
shell10
dockers10
scripting10
dockerfile10
bash9
r8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
BioContainers/containers
Apr 2016 - Nov 2022
Bioinformatics containers
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 6 reviews, 95 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Yasset primarily focused on updating and adding container configurations and related scripts for bioinformatics tools. They made changes to files related to bioinformatics annotation, including the `bior_annotate.sh` script. The user's contributions included modifying and adding new container definitions, likely to support building and maintaining the bioinformatics containers described by the repository.
containersdocker-imagebioinformatics-analysisbiocontainers-architecturebioinformatics
ypriverol/proxi-schemas
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
Schema definitions for the proteomics expression interface
Contributions:430 pushes in 1 year 11 months
schema-validationdefinitionsproteomicsschema-definitions
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