James Stalker
Chief Informatics Officer
Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Stalker is a strategic informatics leader with 25 years’ experience building production-grade bioinformatics and analytics platforms for genomics, clinical trials, and national-scale biomedical programmes. Currently Chief Informatics Officer at UK Biocentre, he blends hands-on systems design with regulatory and operational rigour to deliver sustainable, scalable infrastructures that support sample tracking, compliance, and high-throughput sequencing. His career spans academic, public-health and startup environments—from Ensembl and major sequencing consortia like 1000 Genomes and UK10K to leading informatics at Microbiotica through clinical development—demonstrating an ability to transition teams and pipelines from research to regulated production. Known for migrating complex estates to cloud and QMS-compliant environments, he excels at turning scientific flexibility into auditable, monetisable platform assets.
25 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MA Natural Sciences (Genetics), MA Natural Sciences (Genetics) at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (10)
bioinformatics10
api10
perl10
comparative-genomics10
database8
mysql8
sql8
codebase7
pipeline3
python2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jstalker/github-for-developers-7
Nov 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 2 issues in 9 months
jstalker/gitcourse
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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