Professional Experience Bioinformatics Software Developer?

Question

[d]

I would like to make professional experience as a bioinformatics software developer. Perhaps contributing on GitHub to open source projects or contributing to cancer researches? Where do I start? Is networking enough?

[ATpoint]

What is your background and skills? Any knowledge of biology or bioinformatics? In my experience anything you do requires at least some understanding of the underlying "biology" or at least the domain the tool is supposed to work on/with.

[d]

Software development, background in data science and am currently undergoing a Genetics and Genome Analysis certificate with Stanford University online. I'll say my background and skills are strong enough but I need to get hands-on experience