Ivan Sović
Machine Learning And Software Engineering Manager at Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Zagreb, Croatia
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Top SchoolIvan Sović is a machine learning and software engineering manager with 11 years of experience building high-performance C++ and Python systems for computational biology, now leading ML and software teams at Oxford Nanopore Technologies. He founded and runs Digital BioLogic while bringing technical leadership from roles at Pacific Biosciences and research experience at Ruđer Bošković Institute and the Genome Institute of Singapore. His work focuses on algorithms for de novo genome assembly, mapping and sequence alignment, blending deep research rigor from a PhD in Computer Science with product-minded engineering. Based in Zagreb, he is an active GitHub maintainer whose practical, research-driven implementations have been used across long-read sequencing toolchains. Notably, he balances hands-on algorithm design with team and company leadership, translating complex bioinformatics problems into production-ready software.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
Croatian, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
package-management10
graph10
conda10
structural-variation10
edit-distance10
pairwise10
genome-assembly10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
mapper10
error-prone10
bioconda10
consensus9
sequence-alignment9
levenshtein9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
isovic/aligneval
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:75 pushes, 5 branches, 2 comments in 2 years 1 month
isovic/argparser
Feb 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 19 commits, 17 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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