Kieron Taylor
Senior Sofware Developer at Wellcome Sanger Institute
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKieron Taylor is a senior software developer with 12 years of experience building and maintaining core bioinformatics infrastructure for leading research organisations. Currently at the Wellcome Sanger Institute after a decade at EMBL-EBI, he specialises in backend systems, database schema design, data creation pipelines and web services, with recent hands-on work in GraphQL and Kubernetes. His background in chemistry and eScience (PhD) informs a pragmatic approach to turning complex scientific problems into reliable, reusable software tools. Kieron has bridged research and production environments since his postdoc days, having built computational chemistry portals and semantic RDF/ontology solutions that helped automate domain workflows. Based in Cambridge, he brings a rare blend of deep scientific domain knowledge and production-grade engineering discipline to enable large-scale science through software.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, 2-1, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, 2-1 at Imperial College LondonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemistry and eScience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemistry and eScience at University of Southampton
Github Skills (140)
perl10
genomics10
language-agnostic10
api10
rest10
rna-seq10
data-access10
json10
genome10
esi10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
illumina10
bam9
async9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nerdstrike/npg_langqc
Jul 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:5 reviews, 4 PRs, 236 pushes in 2 years 3 months
wtsi-npg/npg_porch
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 41 reviews, 67 commits in 1 year
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