Andrew Sparkes
Senior Software Developer at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Sparkes is a Senior Software Developer and Scientific Software Engineer with 13 years’ experience building LIMS, laboratory automation, and stock-control systems for both academic and commercial life-science labs. Based in South Cambridgeshire, he currently develops bespoke high-throughput tracking software at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, blending Ruby on Rails and JavaScript to support rapidly evolving sequencing pipelines. His multidisciplinary background in molecular biology and software engineering enables him to bridge wet-lab workflows and scalable software integrations, including instrument control and data-processing pipeline design. Known for delivering flexible, auditable systems in Agile environments, he thrives on the technical and domain complexity of automating sample handling at scale. Notably, he pairs hands-on application development with pragmatic relational database design to keep large-volume sequencing operations running smoothly.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (23)
biology10
rails10
ruby10
vue10
science10
lighthouse9
barcodes9
directed-graph9
sample-data9
sequencing9
eventstore7
bar-code7
parsing7
api7
barcode-printing7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
WTSI-SCGCF/jira_lims_scripts
Jun 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:24 PRs, 52 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
single-cell-genomicsscriptinglimsjirafacility
sanger/biosero-sql
May 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:25 reviews, 23 PRs, 41 pushes in 9 months
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