Roberto Preste

I was born 34 years ago in the south of Italy, and have always been fascinated by science and computers.

I finally had the chance to mix them during my MSc internship in Bioinformatics, which was focused on mitochondrial genomics data. My thesis involved working on a biological database and its web interface, so I started diving into programming, data management and web development.

After graduating, I attended an internship at ELIXIR in Cambridge, UK, where I developed the Bioschemas website, as well as a data validator for Schema.org metadata. This allowed me to deepen my knowledge of web development and design.

I then got a PhD in Genomics and Proteomics at the University of Bari (IT), with a particular focus on creating systems to retrieve, integrate and redistribute human mitochondrial data.

At the moment I'm working as a Senior Software Engineer at Illumina in Cambridge (UK).

My free time is dedicated to baking, hiking, painting, but above all making music - Borer Treetops and Bee Resort are two projects of mine that I'm really proud of.

You can learn more in my resume.

During my PhD in Bioinformatics, my daily job involved dealing with genomics big data. I was required to mix bioinformatics analysis, data science and software and web development in order to gather interesting insights from these data, and build reliable systems to explore and manipulate them.

My current job as a software engineer allows me to build upon these skills and apply them to interesting projects, while collaborating with very stimulating people. I build scientific full-stack applications using Python and a handful of other interesting tools, taking care of their whole life cycle from development to deployment.

Most of my projects can be found on GitHub and in my resume.

Here is a list of some notable things I built; have a look at my GitHub profile and my resume for more.

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