Lluís Sancho
Bioinformatician
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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RockstarLluís Sancho is a bioinformatician based in Madrid with 12 years of experience and over 7 years specializing in high-throughput sequencing analysis, applying statistical methods and R-based algorithms to uncover disease mechanisms. He combines a biotechnology foundation with bioinformatics expertise to translate complex biological data into actionable insights that aim to improve health and deepen biological understanding. An active open-source contributor and back-end developer, he has strengthened robustness in widely used tools like the rtweet R client by adding resilient tests and bug fixes for API parsing and premium account handling. Beyond code, he helps build community and infrastructure—organizing the Barcelona R user group and the Spanish R conference in 2023 and contributing to software working groups. He is motivated by making data accessible and useful across pharma, research, open source and government contexts, often focusing on practical reliability and reproducibility in data pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
English, Spanish, Catalan, German
Github Skills (5)
apim10
api10
r10
testing10
github8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ropensci-archive/rtweet
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
🐦 R client for interacting with Twitter's [stream and REST] APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 84 reviews, 383 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Lluís implemented several tests to improve the robustness of the `rtweet` package. Their changes focused on adding checks for various conditions, such as internet connectivity and the use of the bearer tokens. These modifications ensure that the package functions correctly and gracefully handles potential issues during API calls. The user has also fixed various bugs related to the data structures, and the parsing, especially in relation to the premium accounts.
resttwitterr
llrs/GSEAdv
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:237 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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