Carla Cummins
Senior Bioinformatician
West Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCarla Cummins is a Senior Bioinformatician with 11 years of experience specialising in large-scale biodata processing, pathogen genomics, and comparative analysis of genomic datasets. She has led teams and projects at EMBL-EBI and the ENA, driving archiving and analysis pipelines for pathogenic species, and later provided strategic analysis of scientific corpus to advocate for biodata resources. Currently at Ellele Health, she blends hands-on development with project leadership to operationalise high-throughput genomic workflows for real-world health applications. Her academic foundation is a PhD in Bioinformatics and Phylogenetics from Maynooth University, and she has a track record spanning research, institute-scale infrastructure, and policy-oriented data analysis. Notably, she couples deep technical skills with experience in communicating the value of biodata resources to funders and stakeholders, making her effective at turning complex datasets into actionable insights.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioinformatics Phylogenetics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioinformatics Phylogenetics at Maynooth University
Github Skills (59)
mysql10
perl10
plugin10
genome-analysis10
api10
infectious-diseases10
sql10
formulas10
bioinformatics10
pathogen10
comparative-genomics10
database10
meta9
next-generation-sequencing9
language-agnostic9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
carlacummins/carla-git
Nov 2018 - Jan 2021
Repo for useful scripts written by Carla
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 2 months
carlapythonuseful-scripts
carlacummins/homebrew-cask
Sep 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 years 6 months
formulasmetahomebrewlinuxbrew
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