Helge Hecht
Researcher at RECETOX
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
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Top SchoolHelge Hecht is a researcher and research software engineer at RECETOX, Masaryk University, with nine years of experience at the intersection of computational mass spectrometry, bioinformatics, and software development. Trained in computer science (TUM) and pursuing a PhD in computational biology, he combines C++ application development and team leadership experience from academia and industry, including a stint at Thermo Fisher Scientific. He has progressed through roles from research assistant and specialist to head of department, demonstrating both hands-on coding and organizational responsibility in research settings. Helge is active in academic open science (ResearchGate) and maintains a GitHub profile that reflects his focus on computational workflows, tooling, and reproducible analysis. Notably, his background in games engineering and systems-level C++ development gives him a pragmatic systems perspective rarely highlighted in bioinformatics-focused researchers.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational biology, bioinformatics and modelling, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational biology, bioinformatics and modelling at Masaryk University BrnoMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Technische Universität München
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Github Skills (200)
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package-management10
python10
annotations10
exe10
bioconductor10
genomics10
adaptation10
ms-data10
fuzzy-search10
conda-forge10
word2vec10
mass-spectrometry10
cheminformatics10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
hechth/galaxytools
Dec 2020 - Jun 2025
Set of Galaxy tool wrappers developed at RECETOX
Contributions:139 pushes, 34 branches in 4 years 6 months
galaxy-toolgalaxywrappers
hechth/tools-iuc
Mar 2023 - Jun 2026
Tool Shed repositories maintained by the Intergalactic Utilities Commission
Contributions:61 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 2 months
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