Justin Lecher
Senior Director, Data & Platform Engineering
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJustin Lecher is a Senior Director in Data & Platform Engineering with 18 years of experience building and scaling scientific computing, HPC and AI platforms for life sciences. Based in Cambridge, he has driven platform transformations at AstraZeneca—replatforming HPC to cloud-native stacks, shaping product-centric platform engineering, and delivering multi-regional compute that accelerated deployment velocity threefold while cutting cloud spend by over 25%. A biochemist by training with a PhD in biophysics, he uniquely blends domain expertise in structural biology with deep technical leadership across architecture, DevOps and governance. An open-source enthusiast and long-time Gentoo contributor, he has hands-on history packaging scientific software and extending tools like PyMOL to make researcher workflows more reproducible. He is known for turning ambiguous R&D needs into measurable platform outcomes and for coaching organizations to adopt autonomous, cross-functional delivery models. Justin’s background in both lab science and systems engineering gives him a rare ability to translate research problems into scalable, auditable infrastructure.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biochemistry Biophysics and Membrane protein function, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biochemistry Biophysics and Membrane protein function at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
German, English
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Github Skills (8)
bioinformatics10
biom10
package-management10
python10
scientific-computing9
version-control9
regular-expression9
git9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
gentoo/sci
Jan 2009 - Nov 2018
[MIRROR] Gentoo Science Overlay
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5250 commits, 232 PRs, 590 pushes in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Justin's contributions involved merging branches, fixing ChangeLog entries, and initial imports of Python packages related to astronomy and scientific computing. These commits indicate involvement in overlaying or integrating new scientific software packages, version bumps, and updating dependencies within a Gentoo Linux environment. The user appears to be focused on the infrastructure and maintenance of scientific software libraries and applications.
ebuildgentooscienceoverlay
Pymol-Scripts/Pymol-script-repo
Apr 2009 - May 2016
Collected scripts for Pymol
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:115 commits, 11 PRs, 18 pushes in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Justin's contributions primarily involve developing scripts for the PyMOL software, focusing on creating custom tools and features within the application. They added scripts from a wiki page to the repository, which include tools such as an apropos search function for commands, a tool to manage a PowerMate dial, ray-tracing for stereo images, and a tool to reorder objects. The work demonstrates a focus on extending and customizing PyMOL's functionality for various use cases.
scriptpythonpython-scriptspymol
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