Amnon Khen
Tech Lead, Functional Genomics at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAmnon Khen is a technical lead and software engineer with 11 years of professional experience, currently guiding architecture and delivery for the Human Cell Atlas at EMBL-EBI from Cambridge. He combines strong algorithmic expertise with hands-on engineering and a history of leading teams across finance, security, fraud analytics, and bioinformatics at organizations including Citi, RSA, Wonga, and EMBL-EBI. Comfortable both as a developer and as a technical leader, he has driven platform and DevOps initiatives since the early 2000s and shaped production-grade systems in high-stakes environments. His background blends applied research instincts with practical delivery—evident in roles that span principal engineering, senior technical leadership, and devops ownership. Based in the UK but with an international career arc, he brings creative problem-solving to complex, data-rich domains. An unfinished MSc hints at ongoing curiosity and a preference for learning through impact rather than credentials alone.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at Tel Aviv UniversityM.Sc. (incomplete) Computer Science, M.Sc. (incomplete) Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
Hebrew, English, French, Italian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (99)
metadata9
test-data9
atlas8
faker8
owl8
datasets8
testing8
file-transfer8
xml8
libxml28
ingest8
xslt8
web-application7
ontology7
aws-s37
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ebi-ait/hca-ebi-dev-team
Feb 2021 - Mar 2026
Repository for hca ebi dev team agile management. See zenhub board
Contributions:95 reviews, 18 PRs, 104 pushes in 5 years 1 month
agilezenhub
ebi-ait/ingest-validator
Apr 2021 - Aug 2024
Scripts for Ingest Validation Service
Contributions:14 reviews, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
ingestvalidation
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