David Stirling
Senior Software Engineer at Roche
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Stirling is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with nine years of experience building bioinformatics and image-analysis tools that bridge software engineering and data science. With a PhD in Infection and Immunity and a research background in host-pathogen interactions, he translates complex biological problems into robust, production-ready pipelines and cloud-enabled workflows. He has contributed to widely used open-source projects like CellProfiler—optimizing file-loading, image-maxima detection, and core module fixes—and has applied those skills across academic labs and commercial teams at Glencoe and now Roche. Comfortable both in distributed AWS analysis and low-level backend improvements, he combines domain knowledge in microscopy and immunology with pragmatic software performance engineering.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biomedical Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Biomedical Science at University of WarwickUniversity College London
Github Skills (14)
file-handling10
python10
image-processing10
wxpython9
algorithms9
optimization9
py9
optimisation9
numerical-optimization9
algorithm9
code-optimization9
json7
javas6
java6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CellProfiler/CellProfiler
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
An open-source application for biological image analysis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 42 commits, 257 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving the performance and functionality of the file loading process within the CellProfiler application. This involved optimizing the handling of file lists, including adjustments to path processing, and the introduction of a new module for finding maxima in images. They also addressed JSON handling and improved Java detection within the build process. Additionally, the user contributed to bug fixes in core modules like `TrackObjects` and `ExportToDatabase`.
image-analysispythonneuroimagingbiologicalmicroscopy
DavidStirling/QuantiFish
Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
Zebrafish embryo fluorescence quantification
Contributions:5 releases, 73 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 11 months
quantificationfluorescencezebrafishbiological-data-analysisbiology
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