David Jones
Principal Bioinformatic Infrastructure Engineer
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Jones is a Principal Bioinformatic Infrastructure Engineer with 12+ years building production-grade computational platforms for genomic and health data research, currently leading infrastructure and rollout at Health Innovation East. He combines deep bioinformatics experience—authoring the CaVEMan substitution caller and working across sequencing technologies—with strong cloud and engineering skills in AWS, Infrastructure-as-Code, Python, Perl and C. At the Wellcome Sanger Institute he progressed from research assistant to principal developer, bridging research requirements and robust, auditable systems for large-scale sequencing projects. Comfortable across databases, pipeline design and Linux-based deployment, he focuses on reproducible, scalable solutions that make complex sequence analysis accessible to domain scientists. Based in Cambridge, he brings an unusual mix of hands-on algorithm development and infrastructure leadership that accelerates translational genomics work.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Molecular Cell Biology, BSc Molecular Cell Biology at University of SouthamptonMSc Bioinformatics, MSc Bioinformatics at University of Westminster
Github Skills (59)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cancerit/cgpBigWig
Sep 2016 - Oct 2020
BigWig manpulation tools using libBigWig and htslib
Contributions:3 releases, 130 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 2 months
bigwightslibbioinformaticsbioinformatics-analysiscoverage
cancerit/cgpCaVEManPostProcessing
Oct 2014 - Jul 2022
Flagging add on to CaVEMan
Contributions:10 reviews, 283 commits, 8 PRs in 7 years 11 months
flaggingpluginaemadd-onassetbundle
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