Aaron Fishman
Staff Software Engineer at GRAIL
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Fishman is a Staff Software Engineer in London with 10 years of experience building production-grade bioinformatics and clinical software, now tech-leading a team at GRAIL. He blends a PhD-level background in mechatronics and engineering mathematics with hands-on full-stack work (Go, Python, TypeScript, React) to deliver lab automation, NHS-integrated clinical booking systems, and high-throughput genomics pipelines. His career spans industrial startups and public-sector disease surveillance where he implemented ISO‑validated WGS pipelines, drove cloud automation, and translated complex scientific requirements into reliable, auditable software. Known for fostering engineering practices, he introduced regular code presentations and led a hackathon that promoted nf-test to production use—demonstrating his knack for turning research tools into operational standards.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at University of Bristol
Github Skills (30)
reproducible-research10
reproducible-science10
bioinformatics10
fastq-files9
singularity9
dsl9
dataflow9
slurm9
nextflow9
pipeline-framework9
groovy9
docker9
pipeline9
aws9
wdl8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TheGentlemanOctopus/oracle
May 2018 - Sep 2019
The Oracle installation
Contributions:38 PRs, 50 pushes, 38 branches in 1 year 4 months
oracleinstallationoracle-database
afishman/dalsa-grabber
Apr 2018 - Mar 2022
Simple app built with the Dalsa GigE-V framework to make recording and display easy
Contributions:1 review, 78 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years
androidrecordingsimple-appfluttergige
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