Jennifer Westoby
Lead Bioinformatics Engineer
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJennifer Westoby is a Lead Bioinformatics Engineer based in Cambridge with 10 years of experience translating genomics research into production-ready data science and pipeline solutions. With a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Cambridge and hands-on roles from intern to lead at startups and research organisations, she specializes in single-cell RNA-seq, precision medicine, and scalable bioinformatics pipelines. At ENHANC3D GENOMICS she moved rapidly from senior to lead, demonstrating both technical depth and the ability to operationalize complex genomics workflows. She combines academic rigor with product-focused engineering—comfortable in both CRISPR-era wet-lab contexts and cloud-enabled data systems—and has a track record of turning cutting-edge methods into reproducible tools for clinical and research use.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioinformatics at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (24)
seq10
gene-expression10
sequencing9
rna-seq9
bookdown8
structural-variation8
bioinformatics8
r8
bam8
cancer-genomics7
genomics7
fasta7
bioconda6
julia5
estimate4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jenni-westoby/Benchmarking_pipeline
Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:63 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
jenni-westoby/Julia_GPU_examples
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Github host for Julia GPU tutorial hosted at https://jenni-westoby.github.io/Julia_GPU_examples/dev/
Contributions:77 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 months
gpu-accelerationhostdevgpuhosted
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