Felix Krueger
Hub Director, Bioinformatics
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarFelix Krueger is a bioinformatics leader with 16 years' experience bridging research and production, currently serving as Hub Director, Bioinformatics at Altos Labs in Cambridge. He progressed from postdoctoral scientist to senior bioinformatician roles at The Babraham Institute before moving into leadership, combining deep domain expertise in signalling and epigenetics with practical pipeline engineering. Felix contributes to open-source bioinformatics quality assurance—writing automated test workflows for widely used nf-core modules like FastQC, Trim Galore, Bowtie2 and HISAT2—improving reproducibility across community pipelines. Known for pragmatic delivery of robust, testable workflows, he blends academic rigor with production-focused automation to accelerate reproducible genomics analyses.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
bioinformatics10
go-modules10
jsmodules10
argo-workflows10
workflow-engine10
workflow-automation10
kernel-module10
nf-core10
nextflow10
testing10
mu9
dsl8
pipeline8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
nf-core/modules
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Repository to host tool-specific module files for the Nextflow DSL2 community!
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 17 commits, 14 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to the development of automated tests for various modules within the nf-core/modules repository. They created test workflows for modules such as FastQ Screen, FastQC, Trim Galore, Bowtie2, and HISAT2, demonstrating a focus on testing the functionality and validating the outputs of these bioinformatics tools. These contributions improved the reliability and reproducibility of the modules by enabling automated checks for correct behavior and reporting. The user integrated the development of several new modules and wrote test cases.
nextflownf-coreworkflowspipelinesdsl2
FelixKrueger/Sherman
May 2016 - Sep 2022
A simple Bisulfite FastQ Read Simulator (BiQRS)
Contributions:5 releases, 30 commits, 4 PRs in 6 years 5 months
fastq
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