Ken Hanscombe
Bioinformatician
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Hanscombe is a bioinformatician with 11 years’ experience translating statistical genetics research into production-ready bioinformatics workflows for biobank-scale data. He combines a PhD-backed research background in behaviour genetics and a track record of GWAS and ML-based analyses with hands-on engineering—rewriting legacy pipelines in Python, containerising tools, and deploying Nextflow workflows to HPC and AWS. At Genomics England he has driven workflow portability and CI/CD improvements, while at King’s he built in-house UK Biobank data solutions and authored the widely used ukbtools R package. Comfortable across R, Python, SQL and Terraform, he bridges academic rigour and operational reliability to support large-scale genomic studies. An Early Career Award winner and published lead author, he brings both scientific insight and production engineering discipline to genomic data infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Behaviour Genetics, awarded with no corrections, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Behaviour Genetics, awarded with no corrections at King's College LondonBachelor of Science (BSc), Psychology, 1st Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Psychology, 1st Class Honours at Goldsmiths, University of London
Github Skills (18)
r-package10
explore10
rosalind10
hpc-cluster8
gitignore5
hpc5
r4
vscode4
vscode-extension4
rmarkdown4
samtools2
visual-studio-code2
bcftools2
visual-studio2
conda1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kenhanscombe/ukbtools
Feb 2017 - Oct 2021
An R package to manipulate and explore UK Biobank data
Contributions:5 releases, 296 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 8 months
r-packageuk-biobankexplorerstatsbiobank
kenhanscombe/ukbproject
Sep 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:92 commits, 86 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
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