Aaron Statham
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Illumina
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolAaron Statham is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Sydney with 16 years’ experience applying cloud engineering to clinical genomics and bioinformatics. He currently drives platform and software development at Illumina after leadership roles including Chief Bioinformatics Officer and Manager of Clinical and Production Informatics, bringing both hands-on engineering and operational delivery to clinical pipelines. Trained in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Sydney, he bridges wet-lab domain knowledge and production-grade cloud systems to accelerate genomic interpretation. Known for translating complex clinical requirements into scalable, auditable architectures, he focuses on reliability, reproducibility and clinical compliance in genomics software. An Australian-based engineer who quietly blends scientific rigor with software craftsmanship, he’s comfortable moving between technical leadership and deep implementation work.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
English, r, python
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (64)
r9
reproducible-science9
r-package9
next-generation-sequencing9
genome9
sequencing9
bioinformatics9
illumina8
genomics8
groovy8
motif8
adapter8
pipeline8
overlap8
fastq8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
astatham/Bisulfite-seq-pipeline
Feb 2010 - Jul 2012
Contributions:53 commits in 2 years 6 months
astatham/aaRon
Apr 2014 - Apr 2015
An R package of functions I use day-to-day in analysing various next-generation sequencing data, in particular whole genome bisulfite sequencing.
Contributions:67 commits, 15 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year
r-packagenext-generationgenomeparticularbisulfite-sequencing
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