Edward Turner
Cloud Software Development Lead at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
North Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Turner is a Cloud Software Development Lead with 11 years of experience shaping cloud-native services and engineering teams at EMBL-EBI, following a decade of academic research culminating in a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southampton. He combines deep expertise in formal methods—model checking, theorem proving and formal modelling—with pragmatic software delivery, ensuring systems are both verifiable and production-ready. At EMBL-EBI he progressed from software engineer to lead roles, driving scalable bioinformatics infrastructure and championing model-driven development practices. Edward is equally comfortable in research and engineering contexts, translating formal verification techniques into practical tooling and technical documentation for large collaborative teams. Based in North Hertfordshire, he brings a rare blend of academic rigor and cloud engineering leadership to complex, safety- and correctness-sensitive systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of Southampton
Github Skills (32)
solrcloud10
website-development10
xsd10
uniprot10
nodejs10
x1210
spring-batch9
parser9
spring-boot9
voldemort9
domain-model9
xml9
logic8
spark8
search-engine7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ebi-uniprot/open-targets-core-db
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 review, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
eddturner/ot
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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