Nick Riddiford
Founder at Jamdar
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Riddiford is a PhD-trained bioinformatician and founder with over a decade of experience turning complex biological questions into production-ready computational solutions. He has built and led bioinformatics teams in startups and industry—taking novel R&D tools through to scalable services and AWS-deployed Nextflow pipelines—while currently growing the computational biology function at Cure51. His background spans cancer genome instability research at Institut Curie to oligo design and gene assembly tooling at DNA Script, reflecting a rare mix of deep analytical thinking and pragmatic software delivery. He also founders researcher-focused platforms (researching.io) and a music-connection app (Jamdar), showing an entrepreneurial streak that bridges scientific networks and consumer-facing web products. Known for clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences, he routinely manages multi-year projects and mentors early-career researchers.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Developmental Neurobiology and Bioinformatics, PhD Developmental Neurobiology and Bioinformatics at University of GalwayMSc (DIC) Evolutionary Biology, MSc (DIC) Evolutionary Biology at Imperial College LondonBSc (Hons) Zoology, BSc (Hons) Zoology at University of Leeds
Github Skills (35)
seq10
vcf-files10
explore10
mls9
filter9
csv9
bioinformatics7
sequencing7
rna-seq7
genomics6
breakpoints6
python6
deconvolution6
variants6
python-bindings5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nriddiford/vcfParse
Aug 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
pythonvcf-filesvcfparserparse
nriddiford/cnvPlotteR
Jul 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:134 commits, 120 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
cnvplottingseq
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