Edward Richards
Nextflow Lead at AstraZeneca
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Richards is a Nextflow Lead and bioinformatics scientist with nine years' experience building and deploying high-throughput genomic pipelines across industry and research, now leading Nextflow work at AstraZeneca. He has a strong track record delivering Nextflow DSL2 pipelines for WGS/WES, HLA/pharmacogene typing and de novo assembly—work that helped win UKHSA and commercial tenders and supported Oxford Nanopore PromethION evaluations. Comfortable across cloud (AWS Batch, Docker, Kubernetes) and HPC environments, he blends hands-on scripting (Bash, Python, R) with CI/CD and tooling benchmarking to turn complex sequencing assays into reproducible production workflows. He’s mentored junior bioinformaticians, coordinated cross-functional stakeholders from academia to government, and even led outreach and web delivery for agricultural genomics projects. A pragmatic problem solver with a background spanning EMBL-EBI, Genomics England and industry, he brings both research rigor and delivery-focused engineering to genomics pipeline development.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Neuroscience, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Neuroscience at University of SussexInternational School BaselMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Bioinformatics Polyomics and Systems Biology, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Bioinformatics Polyomics and Systems Biology at University of Glasgow
English, German
Github Skills (48)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
erichards52/Master-Project
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4478 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
erichards52/BTK_Pages
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:188 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
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