Joseph Ward
Senion Infrastructure Engineer at Datavant
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoseph Ward is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 12 years' experience building and securing research-grade cloud and HPC environments, currently managing the Privacy Hub AWS estate to enable data scientists to access sensitive health data under SOC2 Type II and ISO27001 controls. Trained as a PhD bioinformatician, he blends deep genomics pipeline experience—having built primary-analysis NGS pipelines and QC platforms—with production DevOps practices, automation and compliance. He has a track record of translating research workflows into robust, auditable infrastructure, from a 192-core multi-user cluster to cloud-native trusted research environments. Based in Dundee, Joseph is as comfortable writing bespoke analysis pipelines in Python/R as he is architecting IAM, monitoring and data governance for regulated datasets, bringing a rare combination of domain expertise and operational security.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biochemistry at University of NottinghamDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics at University of Leeds
English
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Github Skills (19)
pathogen6
infectious-diseases6
sequencing6
bioinformatics5
genomics5
python-bindings5
genome-analysis5
next-generation-sequencing5
minecraft5
adapter4
dm2
genomes2
rpg2
viewer2
azerothcore2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bartongroup/AlmostSignificant
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 18 pushes in 10 months
iosefward/utilityFiles
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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