Guy Coates
Staff Software Engineer at Altos Labs
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGuy Coates is a Staff Software Engineer and seasoned high-performance computing architect with over two decades of experience designing and operating large-scale compute, storage and data management platforms for research and industry. He has led teams at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Schlumberger, building clusters of tens of thousands of cores, multi-petabyte filesystems and hundreds-of-terabytes database backends to support genomics and scientific computing. Skilled across Linux, Lustre/GPFS, iRODS, cloud and grid technologies, he now focuses on applying web-scale DevOps practices to accelerate research IT delivery. His background in biochemistry and bioinformatics gives him a rare combination of domain science and infrastructure expertise, enabling close collaboration with scientists as well as engineers. Known for transitioning legacy HPC environments toward more agile, service-oriented models, he balances hands-on technical leadership with team management and operational rigor. Based in Cambridge, he brings practical experience turning complex data-intensive requirements into reliable, scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Biochemistry, BA, Biochemistry at University of OxfordPhD, Biochemistry, PhD, Biochemistry at University of BirminghamMsc, Bioinformatics and Molecular modelling, Msc, Bioinformatics and Molecular modelling at Birkbeck, University of London
Github Skills (6)
parallel4
rust3
filesystem1
x111
slurm1
forwarding1
Github contributions (5)
wtsi-ssg/pcp
Sep 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 7 months
rustparallel
wtsi-ssg/pwalk
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 day
parallelrustparallel-filesystemfilesystemwalking
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