Nishadi De Silva
Senior Technical Project Manager at BioFAIR UK
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNishadi De Silva is a Senior Technical Project Manager with 11 years of experience blending software engineering expertise and programme leadership in bioinformatics and research institutions across the UK. With a PhD in Computer Science and a background as a senior developer at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, she combines deep technical skills in Java, Perl, SQL and Unix with hands-on database and data coordination experience. She has led large, collaborative projects—most recently directing microorganism and data coordination efforts at EMBL-EBI and now steering technical delivery at BioFAIR UK. Colleagues know her for translating complex scientific requirements into robust, auditable software systems and for bridging research, engineering and stakeholder engagement. Based in South Cambridgeshire, she brings rare domain fluency in biological data infrastructures alongside proven practice in distributed systems and XML-driven integrations. An early career role coordinating EU-scale middleware dissemination hints at strong communication and consortium-building skills that complement her technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Southampton
English, Sinhala
Github Skills (60)
plugin10
infectious-diseases10
pathogen10
fastq-files9
next-generation-sequencing9
perl9
genome9
sequencing9
bioinformatics9
comparative-genomics9
genomics9
fasta8
api8
genome-analysis8
pan8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nds/ensembl-static-1
Jan 2021 - Sep 2024
Stores all static contents for Non-vertebrates divisions and species.
Contributions:13 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 8 months
contentsstores
nds/bio_assembly_refinement
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:99 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
finishassemblyrefine
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