Cristina Guijarro-clarke
Lead Bioinformatics Engineer
East Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCristina Guijarro-Clarke is a Lead Bioinformatics Engineer with eight years’ experience building robust genomics pipelines and platforms across startups, industry and EMBL-EBI. She combines deep domain expertise in comparative genomics, HLA/TGS/NGS and biomarker/drug discovery with practical PhD training in animal genomics. Cristina has repeatedly driven reproducible, production-grade workflow engineering—authoring and maintaining dozens of Nextflow/Snakemake pipelines, CI/CD practices, and cloud-agnostic deployments for clients including big pharma and biobank projects. At startups she has blended hands-on engineering, DevOps and product leadership to commercialise novel gene-editing assays and meet ISO quality/security standards. Known for mentoring teams and establishing best-practice engineering processes, she also brings the rare perspective of having shipped both foundational academic resources (Ensembl Compara) and startup platforms. Based in East Hertfordshire, she pairs rigorous research instincts with pragmatic delivery to turn complex genomic analyses into reliable, auditable software.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics at University of EssexMaster of Science - MS Bioinformatics, Master of Science - MS Bioinformatics at University of LeicesterBachelor of Science - BS Bioveterinary Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Bioveterinary Science at University of Lincoln
Github Skills (56)
mysql10
perl10
api10
sql10
bioinformatics10
comparative-genomics10
database10
plugin9
language-agnostic9
databases9
data-access9
restful8
rest8
gwas-pipeline7
gwas6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CristiGuijarro/ensembl-datacheck
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
Code for checking Ensembl databases during release production
Contributions:95 pushes, 39 branches in 2 years 8 months
ensemblproductioncheckingdatabases
CristiGuijarro/ComparativeGenomics
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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