Max Cummins
Senior Bioinformatician
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Cummins is a Senior Bioinformatician based in Oxford with a decade of experience applying whole genome sequencing and computational methods to antimicrobial resistance and infectious disease epidemiology. Comfortable in Linux and fluent in R and Python, he focuses on building reproducible, high-throughput analysis pipelines that bridge research and clinical settings. His career spans academic postdoctoral work and hospital-facing bioinformatics roles, most recently at the Ellison Institute of Technology, reflecting a track record of translating genomic insights into practical surveillance tools. Colleagues value his blend of rigorous genomics training and pragmatic pipeline engineering, and he often gravitates toward projects that scale from single-lab analyses to population-level surveillance.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Honours, Genome Sciences/Genomics, Honours, Genome Sciences/Genomics at University of Technology Sydney
Github Skills (60)
placement10
nextflow10
genomes10
ieee10
genomics10
nf-core10
snakemake9
rna-seq8
bioconda8
conda8
assembly8
complexheatmap8
bioinformatics8
pipeline7
illumina7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
maxlcummins/pipelord
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
A microbial genomic analysis pipeline used by the Djordjevic Lab
Contributions:2 releases, 9 commits, 51 PRs in 2 days
analysis-pipelinepipelinecondailluminagenomics
maxlcummins/BLASTlord
Apr 2018 - Apr 2021
A script facilitating filtering of BLAST data
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years
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