Gervaise Henry
VP Solutions Engineering at Manifold
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGervaise Henry is a VP of Solutions Engineering who blends hands-on molecular biology and single-cell genomics experience with cloud-native architecture and customer-facing platform leadership across AWS, Azure, and GCP. He has built and scaled global teams of solutions architects, bioinformatics and services engineers, delivering FAIR-compliant data platforms and population-scale genomics pipelines for pharma and biotech customers. Comfortable from bench to boardroom, he pairs first-author academic publication credentials with practical proof-of-concept engineering—often authoring Nextflow/WDL pipelines himself—to translate scientific needs into production-grade technical solutions. At Manifold he leads technical go-to-market and post-sales delivery for a vertical AI platform used by institutions like the Broad Institute and Terra, shaping product roadmap priorities from real customer signal. His background in high-throughput screening and deep involvement in data provenance and observability gives him an unusual, operationally grounded view of how research workflows must evolve to be both scalable and compliant.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Biology, General, Master's degree, Biology, General at American UniversityBachelor's degree, Biomedical Molecular Biology, Bachelor's degree, Biomedical Molecular Biology at Eckerd College
English
Github Skills (73)
genomics10
nextflow10
rna-seq10
sequencing10
single-cell-genomics10
bioinformatics10
cran10
singularity9
reproducible-science9
pipeline9
slurm9
seq9
transcriptomics9
nf-core9
owl9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
utsw-bicf/GUDMAP_RBK-docker-images
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:3 reviews, 77 PRs, 130 pushes in 3 months
GHAStVHenry/haplotypecaller_nf_public
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:33 releases, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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