James Glover
Senior Software Engineer at Cellular Origins
Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Glover is a senior software engineer with 14 years’ experience building product-focused full‑stack web applications, specialising in Laboratory Information Management Systems and sequencing pipeline tooling. He blends deep domain knowledge from a PhD in molecular biology with pragmatic engineering across Python, Ruby and JavaScript to deliver adaptable, stakeholder-driven solutions for fast-changing lab processes. At Wellcome Sanger Institute he progressed from developer to principal, building and line-managing teams and owning technical decisions for genomic surveillance tooling. James prefers being handed problems rather than solutions, modelling messy domains to extract simple, high-value outcomes, and has a track record of turning close collaboration with scientists into strategic, production-ready systems. Now based in Uttlesford and currently at Cellular Origins, he balances hands-on coding with mentoring and product thinking, and often explores personal projects to experiment with new approaches.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Natural Sciences, 2:1, Bachelor's degree, Natural Sciences, 2:1 at University of CambridgeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Biology at MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (78)
ruby10
barcodes10
science10
biology10
rails10
json-api10
vue10
rest9
quake9
specification9
flask9
game-development9
bar-code9
react9
warehouse9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JamesGlover/lighthouse
Nov 2020 - Jul 2022
API to search through data provided by Lighthouse Labs
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 8 months
apilighthouselighthouse-labs
sanger/cluster_view
Feb 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 3 pushes, 5 tags in 3 years
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