David Lawrence
Bioinformatician
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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SeniorDavid Lawrence is a bioinformatician with 15 years of technical experience who transitioned from professional software development into computational biology in 2011. Based in Adelaide, he has been delivering genomic analysis and tooling at the ACRF Cancer Genomics Facility while drawing on a strong Java and full-stack background from roles at Bravura, Centric Minds and Innodev. Comfortable bridging research and production, he has authored academic work linked on ResearchGate and approaches bioinformatics problems with a programmer’s rigor in reproducible pipelines and software engineering best practices. His history spans QA, enterprise Java stacks (GWT, Spring, Hibernate) and hands-on data analysis, making him adept at turning complex genomic data into actionable insights. An often-overlooked strength is his long continuity in a single research facility, which reflects deep domain knowledge and stewardship of genomic workflows over a decade.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (150)
python10
data-manipulation10
autocomplete10
transcript10
pip10
genomics10
bam10
dataframes10
pandas10
ncbi10
htslib10
bcftools10
genome10
data-science10
sequencing10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
davmlaw/hgvs
Jun 2023 - Jan 2025
Python library to parse, format, validate, normalize, and map sequence variants. `pip install hgvs`
Contributions:61 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 7 months
SACGF/cdot_rest
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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