Charlotte Herzeel
Software Engineering Expert at imec
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlotte Herzeel is a software engineering expert with over a decade of experience designing high-performance, parallel and distributed systems for life sciences, pharmaceuticals and semiconductor applications. With a PhD in Computer Science from VUB and a track record at imec’s ExaScience lab, she combines rigorous research instincts with production-grade engineering—evident in elPrep, a parallel sequencing pipeline she architected that is widely validated and downloaded via Bioconda. Her work spans algorithms, big data analytics and resilient schedulers, and she has optimized tools to process +50TB datasets and clinical trajectories efficiently on multicore and distributed platforms. A (leading) author on 20+ publications and patents and a 2021 Sigma Xi nominee for impact in bioinformatics, she bridges academia and industry while keeping a hands-on role in open-source projects used in hospitals and by commercial partners.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (4)
sequence-alignment10
sequencing10
command-line-tool5
java4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ExaScience/elprep
Jul 2014 - Apr 2022
elPrep: a high-performance tool for analyzing sequence alignment/map files in sequencing pipelines.
Contributions:33 releases, 160 commits, 4 PRs in 7 years 11 months
sequence-alignmentsequencing
ExaScience/elprep-demo
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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