Mark Mcdowall
Head Of DataOps
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Mcdowall is Head of DataOps with 14 years of hands-on experience building scalable pipelines and infrastructure for genomics and bioinformatics teams. He combines deep domain expertise in NGS analysis, ontologies and NLP with long-term proficiency in Python, MySQL and HDF5 to deliver automated, high-performance data platforms. At SciBite and EMBL-EBI he has led projects spanning curation imports, 3D genome storage and production-grade pipelines, often optimizing databases and workflow engines (including extending Luigi for LSF). Trained as a molecular biologist with a PhD in protein–protein interaction prediction, he brings a rare blend of computational rigor and biological insight to DataOps. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions to scaling and query performance that quietly unlock downstream data science productivity.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Prediction of Protein-Protein Interaction, PhD Prediction of Protein-Protein Interaction at University of DundeeBSc Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, BSc Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Durham UniversityMRes Bioinformatics, MRes Bioinformatics at University of York
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Github Skills (58)
bam10
fastq-files10
luigi10
perl10
genomes10
api10
fastq10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
fasta10
sequence10
hadoop9
lists9
visualization9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
EnsemblGenomes/eg-web-pombase
Jun 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:135 commits, 100 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Multiscale-Genomics/mg-rest-dm
Nov 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 97 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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