Biography
Andreas has been a systems developer at NBIS in Uppsala since 2014, supporting biomedical and bioinformatics research groups at Swedish research institutes. He works in one of NBIS’s system development teams, delivering bespoke software solutions for research projects.
In addition to development work, Andreas has operational responsibility for several internal production services used by around 150 staff. As part of a small team, he manages the Linux-based environment on which these services depend, including backups, logging, and storage.
After studying numerical analysis and high-performance computing at Uppsala University in the 1990s, Andreas moved into bioinformatics infrastructure and software development at AgResearch in New Zealand in 2000. He then moved to the UK in 2003, working at EMBL-EBI for nine years and later at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute until 2014, contributing to the Ensembl project, including core infrastructure supporting genome annotation.
Much of Andreas’ day-to-day work centres on Linux, Python, and relational databases, combining software development with the practicalities of running reliable services.
