Imo Wright
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolImogen Wright is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient cloud control planes and high-throughput bioinformatics systems. She began at Amazon EC2 developing availability canaries, earned a PhD in bioinformatics, then co-founded Hyrax Biosciences where her team’s software processed over 90% of SARS-CoV-2 genomes sequenced in Africa. Returning to AWS, she now runs the EC2 Control Plane Availability Zone Isolation programme, blending deep distributed-systems engineering with operational leadership. Her background spans low-level compute APIs to algorithmic genomics, and she’s comfortable switching hats from CTO to hands-on developer. Based in the Western Cape, she brings a rare mix of academic rigor, startup grit, and large-scale production experience.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc. (Perimeter Scholars International), Theoretical Physics, MSc. (Perimeter Scholars International), Theoretical Physics at University of WaterlooBSc. (Hons.), Physics with Electronics, Computer Science, BSc. (Hons.), Physics with Electronics, Computer Science at Rhodes UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at University of the Western Cape/Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (22)
jupyter-notebook10
dashboard9
visualization9
webgl9
interactive9
plotly9
plotly-express9
ipywidgets9
jupyter-widget9
regl9
pyodide8
python8
declarative8
graph8
charting8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ramics/HIVIntact
Jun 2019 - Jul 2021
A proviral intactness pipeline.
Contributions:12 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years
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