Matt Oates
Staff Engineer at Biorelate
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatt Oates is a Staff Engineer based in Bristol with 13 years of experience building data-driven, bioinformatics and genomics platforms that bridge research and clinical diagnostics. His background spans roles from Principal Scientist and Director of Science to Chief Data Officer, where he has led teams to turn complex biological data—telemetry, genomics and ontologies—into performant, production-grade systems and actionable insights. He blends deep academic training (PhD in Complexity Science/Computational Biology) with hands-on software engineering, frequently delivering distributed processing and real-time models for personalised fitness and genetic-diagnostic products. Known for ideation and learning, he excels at connecting domain science to pragmatic engineering, and has repeatedly taken contractor roles to solve high-impact problems for Genomics England–related projects. A practical polymath, he pairs systems-level architecture with low-level integrations (eg. robotic sensors and performant genomic representations) to accelerate translational outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence, BSc Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence at Prifysgol Aberystwyth UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Complexity Science / Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Complexity Science / Computational Biology at University of Bristol
English
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Github Skills (200)
metadata10
perl10
pdb-files10
computational-biology10
get-started10
bioperl10
raku10
blast10
biology10
sequence-alignment10
javascript-engine10
documentation-generator10
bioinformatics10
scheduler9
api9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
MattOates/melm
May 2016 - Jun 2022
Mask and assign protein sequences with ELM motif regions
Contributions:3 releases, 8 PRs, 39 pushes in 6 years 1 month
autoencodermaskregionselmmotif
MattOates/Stats
Jun 2014 - Jan 2020
Perl6 statistics modules
Contributions:25 commits, 7 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 years 8 months
statisticsperl6
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