Kevin Howe
Head Of Data Analysis And Engineering
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Howe is a genomics and bioinformatics leader with over two decades building internationally used biological databases and leading large-scale data engineering teams. Currently Head of Data Analysis and Engineering at the Wellcome Sanger Institute’s Genomic Surveillance Unit, he combines hands-on software development, biocuration, and operational delivery to turn complex genomic data into analysis-ready resources. He has served as UK PI for WormBase and the Alliance of Genome Resources and as co-investigator on Ensembl, evidencing deep domain authority across community-facing infrastructure. Trained as a computational biologist (PhD, Cambridge) with an MEng in Computer Science, Kevin uniquely bridges rigorous academic research and production-grade engineering, often shaping how model-organism and comparative genomics data are curated and released.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, First class honours, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, First class honours at Imperial College LondonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (49)
perl10
api10
bioinformatics10
comparative-genomics10
mysql9
genome9
database9
sql8
gwt7
jbrowse7
pipeline7
geneontology7
java-server6
metadata6
json6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
khowe/quicktree
Mar 2017 - Mar 2019
Fast implementation of the neighbour-joining phylogenetic inference method
Contributions:6 releases, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years
methodinferencejoining
WormBase/acedb
May 2020 - Oct 2021
the Sanger Institute version of the venerable genome database system
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
genomesangergenomicsbioinformaticsdatabase-system
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