Chris Wright
Senior Director Customer Bioinformatics
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Wright is a senior bioinformatics and data science leader with 13 years’ experience building teams and production-grade analysis workflows for local, HPC and cloud environments. As Senior Director of Customer Bioinformatics at Oxford Nanopore Technologies he oversees design, implementation and deployment of algorithms that enable anyone to analyse any sample, anywhere. Trained as a physical and theoretical chemist (D.Phil., University of Oxford) with a First in MChem, he blends deep scientific rigor with pragmatic engineering and product sensibility. Known for turning complex sequencing challenges into usable user experiences, he balances strategic leadership with hands-on involvement in pipelines and scalable compute. Based in the Greater Oxford area, he brings a track record of aligning research-grade methods with customer-focused delivery.
13 years of coding experience
MChem, Chemistry, First, MChem, Chemistry, First at University of Oxford
Github Skills (198)
package-management10
python10
structural-variation10
immunology10
pysam10
flip-flop10
genomics10
bedtools10
conda-forge10
bam10
nextflow10
htslib10
neural-network10
bioconda10
bcftools10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
epi2me-labs/kraken2-server
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Kraken2 Server
Contributions:28 commits, 1 push, 5 tags in 3 months
nanoporetech/bwapy
Jun 2017 - Mar 2020
Python bindings to bwa mem
Contributions:5 releases, 34 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 9 months
python-bindings
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