Edmund Higham
Senior Software Engineer at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolEdmund Higham is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cambridge, MA with 11 years of experience building and leading infrastructure for large-scale data and genomics platforms. At the Broad Institute he led cross-functional teams to automate petabyte-scale genomic pipelines and orchestrated a migration that moved 28 PB across thousands of cloud workspaces, blending backend, IAM and operational engineering. His earlier work at MathWorks honed deep expertise in algorithmic engineering and tooling—designing diff/merge systems and performance optimizations in C++ and MATLAB—while mentoring engineers new to C++. Curious about programming language design and implementation, he focuses on creating safer, more expressive systems and pragmatic developer ergonomics. Colleagues describe him as a continuous learner who seeks diverse perspectives to deliver simpler, maintainable solutions that scale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Mechanical Engineering, 1st Class Honours, Master of Engineering (MEng), Mechanical Engineering, 1st Class Honours at Imperial College LondonHigh School, High School at Shrewsbury School
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Github Skills (75)
hail10
python10
terra10
py4j10
genomics10
pipeline10
ring10
scalable10
spark10
scala10
data-analysis10
genetics10
gwas10
bioinformatics10
middleware9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ehigham/hail
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
Scalable genomic data analysis.
Contributions:656 pushes, 205 branches in 2 years 2 months
ehigham/RideOut
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 16 days
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