Sergio Lara
Senior Software Engineer at Elements
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolSergio Lara is a senior software engineer based in Barcelona with 11 years of experience bridging academia and industry to build data-driven, cloud-native systems. He has moved from bioinformatics research—where he developed Django/Flask tools, managed Neo4j/MySQL databases and trained ML models—to designing high-availability Django/FastAPI microservices and Kubernetes-hosted applications in production. At Elements he led backend quality initiatives, built automated customer onboarding and fraud-detection pipelines on AWS, and contributed to a modern TypeScript/Angular front end. Comfortable across Python, R, Perl, PostgreSQL and Redis, he combines scientific rigor with pragmatic engineering to turn complex data problems into reliable services. An implicit strength is his ability to translate research-grade analyses into production workflows that scale and remain maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Bioinformatics, Master in Bioinformatics at Universitat Pompeu FabraBachelor's Degree Biology, Bachelor's Degree Biology at Universitat de Barcelona
Spanish, English, Catalan
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Github Skills (108)
linter10
smith-waterman10
static-analysis10
ai10
django-cache10
needleman-wunsch10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
text-mining10
cytoscapejs10
bioinformatics10
keybindings10
ruff9
javascript9
sql9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
scastlara/PlanNET
Sep 2017 - Oct 2020
Website to explore predicted planarian protein-protein interactions.
Contributions:1 release, 314 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 1 month
explorepdb-filesprotein-proteinstructural-biologyinteractions
scastlara/ppaxe
Jul 2017 - Jun 2019
Text mining tool to retrieve protein-protein interactions from the scientific literature.
Contributions:2 releases, 226 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 11 months
text-miningbioinformaticsprotein-protein-interactiongene-networknlp
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