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 (200)
structural-variation10
datasets10
immunology10
reproducible-science10
systems-biology10
bioconda10
phasing10
edit-distance10
python-bindings10
package-management10
python10
pipeline10
guppy10
pairwise10
samtools10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
epi2me-labs/modbam2bed
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:79 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 6 months
epi2me-labs/fastcat
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:86 commits, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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