Ezra Herman
Lead Bioinformatician
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEzra Herman is a Lead Bioinformatician based in London with six years of experience combining microbiology, statistics and software engineering to turn complex sequencing data into actionable insights. He holds a PhD focused on phage–bacteria interactions and has deep expertise building reproducible Snakemake pipelines, hybrid assembly workflows, and statistical modelling in R, alongside scientific software in Python. At Esox Biologics he leads pipeline development, team hiring and client-facing reporting to improve animal welfare in aquaculture and advance food security. Ezra is skilled at translating technical results for non-specialist audiences and has a strong track record teaching and developing training materials on reproducible data analysis. A practical collaborator, he brings hands-on HPC and cloud deployment experience (Azure) and an unusual blend of wet‑lab experimental design knowledge with production bioinformatics.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Molecular Genetics, First Class (72%), Bachelor of Science - BS, Molecular Genetics, First Class (72%) at The University of EdinburghDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics & Microbiology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics & Microbiology at University of YorkMaster of Science - MS, Statistics, Distinction (98.7%), Master of Science - MS, Statistics, Distinction (98.7%) at University of Glasgow
English, Dutch, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (122)
snakemake10
forge10
simple-linear-regression10
minhash10
workflow-management10
multiple-linear-regression9
bacteria9
genomics9
health9
bioinformatics9
alan9
microbiology9
genome9
statistics8
linear-regression8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ezherman/find-defence-systems
Feb 2022 - May 2024
Pipeline that detects defence systems in bacterial genome sequences.
Contributions:4 reviews, 33 PRs, 116 pushes in 2 years 3 months
carpentries-incubator/statistics-r-public-health
Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
Statistical analysis in R for public health.
Contributions:26 commits, 15 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 9 months
r-packagestatisticspre-alphahealthstatistical
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