David Richardson
Engineering Manager at Conduktor
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Richardson is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience building and leading software and data teams across bioinformatics, geospatial and data-platform domains. He combines a calm, empathetic leadership style with hands-on expertise in high-throughput data services, cost-optimised cloud architectures and data quality workflows. David has a track record of turning siloed specialists into cohesive teams, driving both technical transitions (on-prem to hybrid/AWS, Presto to Databricks) and measurable operational savings. He has led product-facing initiatives—such as Global FieldID—balancing strategic roadmap decisions with day-to-day delivery and stakeholder engagement. Trained in microbiology and bioinformatics, he uniquely bridges scientific rigor with practical engineering, enabling reproducible data pipelines for research and commercial products. Based in Cambridge, he’s as comfortable mentoring engineers as he is diving into platform reliability and data ingestion challenges.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Microbiology, BSc Microbiology at The University of Manchester
English
Github Skills (61)
portal10
bam9
schema-validation9
bedtools9
minhash9
django9
metadata9
genome9
schema9
genomics8
data-catalog8
python8
bioinformatics8
ontologies7
next-generation-sequencing7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
EMBL-EBI-SUBS/subs
Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:138 PRs, 312 pushes, 151 branches in 11 months
stopsharingexperiment-dataone-stop-servicebiological
EMBL-EBI-GCA/BioSD
Dec 2013 - May 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 5 months
apibiosamplesdatabaseperl
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