Emma Cooke
Senior Software Engineer at Elsevier | SciBite
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEmma Cooke is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cambridge with nine years’ experience building reliable, cloud-native data pipelines and backend systems—primarily in Python—across enterprise and scientific research settings. She combines strong software engineering foundations with a background in genetics/RNA biology, enabling her to translate complex scientific requirements into automated, production-grade workflows. Her work spans AWS architectures, bioinformatics pipelines (notably for non-coding RNA at EMBL-EBI), and automation that replaces manual, error-prone processes. At Elsevier/SciBite she has progressed from software engineer to senior engineer, reflecting a track record of delivering scalable, maintainable solutions in multidisciplinary teams. Beyond engineering, she is active in STEM outreach—running hackathons, teaching Python to non-programmers, and hosting a podcast—bringing communication and mentorship into technical projects. Colleagues rely on her pragmatic problem-solving and ability to bridge research, product, and engineering perspectives.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc, Applied Software Engineering, Master of Science - MSc, Applied Software Engineering at Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone CampusB.A (Hons), Genetics, B.A (Hons), Genetics at Trinity College Dublin
English, Irish, German
Github Skills (28)
bioinformatics10
python9
perl9
pipeline9
ncbi8
taxonomy7
zeal7
backend7
sphinx7
csv6
biodiversity6
docker6
documentation5
mysql4
pipeline-framework4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Rfam/rfam-production
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Rfam production pipeline
Contributions:382 commits, 90 PRs, 302 pushes in 1 year 6 months
rfampythonpipelinebioinformaticsncrna
elsevier-health/scibite-ontology
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Provide a public version of the HGNC owl file. The repo will contain the hgnc.owl file that we create during the run of the ontology autoupdate pipeline.
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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