Nava Whiteford
Consultant at Kern Systems
Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolNava Whiteford is a consultant and seasoned life-sciences software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and computational platform development. Based in Japan, Nava has moved between hands-on algorithm development and executive roles—contributing to core nanopore sequencing work at Oxford Nanopore, leading informatics and CTO functions at startups, and advising on synthetic DNA data storage at Kern Systems. Their background combines a PhD-rooted expertise in suffix-array and short-read sequencing algorithms with practical engineering in C++ and production pipelines for high-throughput platforms. Nava’s consulting practice focuses on translating deep domain knowledge into product-ready tools for sequencing companies, and an underappreciated strength is bridging wet-lab constraints with scalable software architectures. They are comfortable both in research-driven environments and in steering early-stage companies toward deployable sequencing solutions.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Chemical Biology (really Bioinfomatics), Bioinformatics, PhD in Chemical Biology (really Bioinfomatics), Bioinformatics at University of Southampton
Github Skills (17)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
new299/jterm
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:80 commits, 74 pushes in 1 month
new299/hackterm
Oct 2012 - Jul 2013
Contributions:110 commits in 8 months
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