Benjamin Wingfield
Senior Bioinformatician
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Wingfield is a Senior Bioinformatician based in Cambridge with 10 years’ experience translating large-scale biological data into clinically relevant insights for stratified medicine. He combines a PhD in Computational Biology and hands-on engineering to build reproducible workflows for polygenic risk scoring and genomics data processing, including contributions to the widely used nf-core/modules repository where he implemented multiple PLINK and UCSC liftover modules. At EMBL-EBI he has moved from bioinformatician to acting project lead and now senior specialist, bridging research, production pipelines, and data platform development. His background spans microbiome discovery, ML-driven diagnostic tools and a demonstrated ability to productize prototypes (from MVPs for low-light imaging to public-health dashboards), giving him a rare mix of academic rigor and practical delivery.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Synthetic Biology, Master of Science (MSc), Synthetic Biology at Newcastle UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Biology at Ulster University
Github Skills (11)
go-modules10
bioinformatics10
jsmodules10
genomics10
kernel-module10
nextflow10
dsl10
testing9
conda8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
nf-core/modules
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
Repository to host tool-specific module files for the Nextflow DSL2 community!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the development of new modules within the nf-core/modules repository, specifically focusing on implementing and integrating bioinformatics tools. They added modules for `ucsc/liftover`, `plink/extract`, `plink2/vcf`, and `plink2/extract`, and `plink2/score`, showcasing a focus on genomics data processing. The user also made adjustments to existing modules and tests. Their work involved writing scripts, configuring dependencies, and adapting code to fit the nf-core DSL2 framework.
nf-corehostnextflow-dsl2nextflowdsl2
ebi-gdp/hattivatti
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
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Contributions:10 releases, 15 PRs, 127 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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