Miles Benton
Associate Director
Taranaki, New Zealand
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Top SchoolMiles Benton is an Associate Director and computational geneticist with 12 years of experience translating genomics research into commercial applications across APAC for Oxford Nanopore Technologies. He blends deep bioinformatics expertise from senior research and postdoctoral roles with hands-on product and customer-facing leadership, particularly around real-world sequencing deployments. Based in Taranaki, New Zealand, he holds a PhD in computational genetics and a strong track record at ESR and academic institutions, bridging environmental and clinical genomics. Beyond work he cultivates community empowerment, photography and an unexpected love of heavy metal, reflecting a creative, people-focused approach to scientific problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Genetics/Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Genetics/Bioinformatics at Griffith UniversityMaster of Biomedical Science (MBmedSc), Human/Medical Genetics, Master of Biomedical Science (MBmedSc), Human/Medical Genetics at Victoria University of Wellington
English
Stackoverflow
53reputation
3kreached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (69)
guppy10
sequencing10
porting10
bioinformatics10
illumina10
genomics9
pipeline8
optimisation8
snakemake8
gitbook8
pathogen8
gatsby7
notebook7
markdown7
nextflow7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sirselim/covid_analysis
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Exploration of new Zealand COVID19 data from the MoH
Contributions:1 PR, 234 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
mohnew-zealandzealand
sirselim/cpg_annotate
Jun 2016 - Mar 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
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