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Bilal El Houdaigui

I'm a software developer, I use mainly Python & React to develop robust and user-friendly web applications.

Work

EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Hinxton, United Kingdom

Ensembl Applications Developer• April 2020 - Present

Describe work, special projects, notable achievements, what technologies you have been working with, and anything else that would be useful for an employer to know.

Research Unit Genomic Info (URGI) at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) - Versailles, France

Data Integration/Web Developer• July 2018 - March 2020

Managing and developing workflows to Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) biological data from heterogeneous databases (Graph & SQL) AND Contributing to the development of the International Plant Data Portal of the French Institute of Bioinformatics.

Internship in Microbiology, Adaptation and Pathogenesis Laboratory - Lyon, France

Python Developer• February 2017 - July 2017

The aim of the internship was to develop a model that simulates the transcription-supercoiling coupling of DNA in bacteria.

About

I’m known for being passionate about what I’m doing, firm believer that Googling effectively is an extremely useful skill, in my spare time I like to learn new technologies and explore what’s in the market, enjoy a walk in the forest or near the sea, I also like reading books, playing chess and video games.

Skills

Tech stack that I’m learning and using recently (Always willing to learn)
Python (Django, Flask & FastAPI)
React (JS)
MySQL
Elasticsearch
Git (GitHub & GitLab)
Docker
Kubernetes
Scrum

Education

National School of Applied Science - Tangier, Morocco

Master in Bioinformatics and Complex Systems • September 2017

Faculty of Sciences and Technics - Tangier, Morocco

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science • June 2017

Publications

Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 51, Issue D1, 6 January 2023, Pages D933–D941, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac958

Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 50, Issue D1, 7 January 2022, Pages D988–D995, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab1049

Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 49, Issue D1, 8 January 2021, Pages D884–D891, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa942

Bioinformatics, Volume 36, Issue 12, 15 June 2020, Pages 3899–3901, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa221

Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 47, Issue 11, 20 June 2019, Pages 5648–5657, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz300

Technically doesn't count as a publication since I uploaded it myself to https://www.academia.edu

Side Projects

Projects I worked on whenever I had free time

This is my latest project which is still work in progress, where I would like to gather anything that can be beneficial for me or the future visitors

Reconstruct Arabic sentences to be used in applications which doesn’t support Arabic

Fetch Posts from Reddit using their API

Contact

For any inquiries please feel free to reach out to me