Luiz Gadelha
IT And Research Data Engineer - Cluster Of Excellence GreenRobust
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolLuiz Gadelha is an experienced IT and research data engineer with 15 years building scientific data infrastructure for genomics, bioinformatics and biodiversity research across Brazil and Germany. He has led projects at DKFZ’s German Human Genome-Phenome Archive, coordinated GDI node activities, and now supports the GreenRobust Cluster of Excellence at Heidelberg University, blending hands-on engineering with research-focused reproducibility and provenance practices. His background spans senior technologist roles at LNCC and representative leadership for GBIF’s Latin American nodes, showing both technical depth in scientific databases and an ability to bridge international research collaborations. Luiz holds advanced training including a D.Sc. in Computer and Systems Engineering and a doctoral internship at the University of Chicago, bringing rigorous academic methods to production data workflows. Colleagues rely on him for crafting auditable computational pipelines and interoperable data services that serve large, privacy-sensitive research datasets.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
D.Sc. Computer and Systems Engineering, D.Sc. Computer and Systems Engineering at Federal University of Rio de JaneiroDoctoral Internship Computer Science, Doctoral Internship Computer Science at University of ChicagoM.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at Universidade de Brasília
Github Skills (11)
dismo9
mass-spectrometry8
bioinformatics5
nextflow4
elixir3
r-package3
nodejs3
federated2
r2
crate2
sequencing1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lgadelha/swift-provenancedb
May 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
lgadelha/gw-repo-prototype
Mar 2025 - Sep 2025
An API prototype for storing provenance and resource usage information from Nextflow workflow executions
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
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