Daniel Buchan
Senior Research Software Engineer at University College London
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Buchan is a Senior Research Software Engineer and bioinformatics data scientist with 11+ years applying machine learning, big data and full-stack web engineering to large-scale biological and commercial datasets. At UCL he builds open-source tooling to operationalize statistical and ML models as web services (notably Analytics Automated) and maintains numerous academic bioinformatics repos used in projects like CATH and the Tomato Genome Project. His background spans hands-on systems administration, scalable pipeline design (Hadoop, Grid Engine) and production ML work across life insurance and rental market econometrics. Comfortable across Perl, R, Java and modern web stacks, he combines deep domain expertise in molecular biology with practical experience shipping reliable data-driven services. An unusual strength is translating complex research models into maintainable, deployable web services that bridge academia and industry.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Pass, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Pass at University College LondonBachelor of Science (BSc), Molecular biology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Molecular biology at University College London, U. of London
Github Skills (130)
prediction10
predictor10
r9
middleware9
ncbi9
viterbi9
distributed-computing9
knitr9
computational-biology9
time-management9
bioinformatics9
treeview9
tree-structure9
stable9
bezier9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
psipred/MemSatSVM
May 2016 - Nov 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 8 years 7 months
psipred/server_update
Sep 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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