José María Villaveces

Software Developer and PhD Candidate

Profile

Computational biology PhD with an acute interest in data integration and visualization and how these two concepts can be used to unveil data stories.

Experience

PhD Candidate – Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry

2011 - Current

Designed and developed interactive web based scientific visualizations.

Collaborated in the development of a federated system on top of elaticsearch to promote biobank interoperability.

Created a batch workflow to download and integrate molecular interaction data sets from diverse databases.

SoftwareEngineer Intern – European Bioinformatics Institute

2010 - 2011

Implemented a web app for visualization and integration of protein sequence annotations.

SoftwareEngineer Intern – Universidad de La Sabana

2009 - 2010

Designed and implemented a pilot of the student’s portal using Sharepoint.

Skills

  • JavaScript

  • Java

  • CSS/HTML

  • Python

coding

  • D3

  • Angularjs

  • backbonejs

  • elasticsearch

  • Spring

frameworks / libs

Education

PhD Candidate – Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry

2011 - Current

Bioingeneering Diploma - Universidad de La Sabana

2007 - 2009

Bioingeneering Diploma - Universidad de La Sabana

2004 - 2009

Languages

  • English - Full Professional profiency (IELTS score 7)

  • Spanish - Native Speaker

  • German - Way stage or elementary (A2)

Portfolio

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