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
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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