Haider Iqbal
Senior Software Engineer at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHaider Iqbal is a senior software engineer with nine years' experience building scalable data pipelines and production services across financial and bioinformatics domains. He has combined industry experience at Deutsche Bank with a long tenure at EMBL-EBI, where he progressed from junior developer to senior engineer and now continues in a senior role at EBI, reflecting deep domain knowledge in large-scale scientific data systems. Technically fluent in cloud-native tooling (notably Google Cloud), Git, and machine learning workflows, he focuses on robust, testable solutions for risk management and bioinformatics applications. An Oxford master's graduate, Haider complements formal training with practical coursework in big data and ML and a history of algorithmic work (including performance improvements for Educative problem sets). He also brings leadership in diversity and inclusion from his time leading efforts at the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Society, showing commitment to team culture as well as code. Curious and continuously learning, he blends research-facing engineering with pragmatic delivery in multidisciplinary teams.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at University of OxfordBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English, Urdu
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Github Skills (62)
ontologies10
atlas10
semantic-web10
semantics10
linked-data10
knowledge-representation10
knowledge-management10
bioinformatics10
rdf10
owl10
cancer-genomics9
web-application9
ontology9
knowledge-graph9
heatmap9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
haideriqbal/personal-projects
Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
haideriqbal/ols4
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Version 4 of the EMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service (OLS)
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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