Matthew Colpus
Bioinformatician
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Colpus is a bioinformatician and research software engineer with eight years of technical experience and an integrated MMath/MComp from the University of Oxford. He currently designs reproducible Nextflow pipelines at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, transforming genomic data into insights on antibiotic resistance and hospital outbreak dynamics using Python, R and interactive visualisations. His background spans computational biology, quantitative finance research, and software engineering internships, giving him a strong foundation in data-driven problem solving and statistical rigor. Based in Sheffield, he’s keen to broaden his data science toolkit and apply engineering best practices to translational research, combining production-grade pipelines with clear communication to clinical audiences. An analytical thinker who enjoys turning complex papers into working code, he bridges academic methods and deployable bioinformatics solutions.
8 years of coding experience
Mathematics and Computer Science, Computer Software Technology/Technician, First, Mathematics and Computer Science, Computer Software Technology/Technician, First at University of Oxford
Github Skills (46)
data-driven10
reproducible-research10
docker10
slurm10
dataflow10
reproducible-science10
groovy10
dsl10
singularity10
nextflow10
pipeline-framework10
aws10
pipeline10
bioinformatics10
wdl10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mcolpus/kwarg
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:59 pushes, 17 branches in 9 months
oxfordmmm/Bugflow_DSL2
May 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:16 PRs, 18 pushes, 17 branches in 8 months
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