Alexander Rogers
MGnify Web And Platform Project Leader
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Rogers is a software development project leader at EMBL-EBI, currently leading the MGnify web and platform team that builds open-source pipelines and web resources for microbiome metagenomics. With 11 years’ experience bridging research and product delivery, he combines a PhD in observational astrophysics with eight years in startups, giving him a strong grounding in scientific computing, data pipelines, and production web services. He is a hands-on full‑stack engineer fluent in Python, Django, Prefect, React and Kubernetes, equally comfortable writing HPC analysis pipelines and designing user-facing APIs and interfaces. His background in imaging and instrumentation informs a pragmatic approach to complex data workflows and reproducible research infrastructure. He also designs and delivers training and user-focused documentation, maintaining platforms such as a JupyterLab environment to help researchers adopt tools. Colleagues value him for turning whiteboard ideas into maintainable, open-source services that run at scale across clusters and cloud.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astronomy and Astrophysics at The University of EdinburghMaster of Physics (MPhys) Physics, Master of Physics (MPhys) Physics at University of St AndrewsExchange scholar Physics, Exchange scholar Physics at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (117)
python10
entity-linking10
cython10
genomics10
backbone10
shinyproxy10
quarto10
ai10
pipeline10
galaxy10
rlang10
shell10
cli10
artificial-intelligence10
text-classification10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
EBI-Metagenomics/holofood-database
Aug 2022 - Jan 2025
HoloFood is a project investigating sustainable food production through hologenomics. This Django app is the data portal where samples and other datasets from the project are made publicly available.
Contributions:2 releases, 15 PRs, 89 pushes in 2 years 5 months
djangometabolomicsmetagenomicsomicspython
EBI-Metagenomics/blog
Nov 2021 - Aug 2024
EBI metagenomics blog
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 9 months
metagenomics
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