Alastair Tanner
Research Software Engineer at University of Bristol
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlastair Tanner is a research software engineer and data scientist at the University of Bristol with 11 years' experience building reproducible analysis pipelines and teaching computational skills to researchers. He currently develops a spectroscopic analysis platform and has a strong background in epidemiological data acquisition, cleaning and genomics data science, pairing domain knowledge with practical software engineering. Comfortable across Python, R and C++, he also designs apps and delivers hands-on training for post-graduate researchers and university staff. His academic roots include a PhD in molecular biology and a background in phylogenomics and palaeontology, which inform a careful, data-driven approach to research problems. An early career in photographic archiving contributes an unusual blend of attention to metadata, visual thinking and efficient computation.
11 years of coding experience
Physics, Mathematics, Biology, Geology, Physics, Mathematics, Biology, Geology at Bryanston School, DorsetBachelor of Arts - BA, Photography, 2nd class, honours, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Photography, 2nd class, honours at Bournemouth UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Biology at University of Bristol
Github Skills (32)
python9
machine-learning9
docker9
developer-tools9
streamlit9
data-visualization9
data-analysis8
deep-learning8
fastest8
golang8
data-science8
ecosystem8
bokeh8
container7
pandas7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
altanner/MoSuMa_tools
May 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:63 pushes, 2 comments, 9 issues in 4 years 5 months
altanner/pimoroni_pHAT_python_scripts
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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