Oliver Rimington
Principal Bioinformatician
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Rimington is a Principal Bioinformatician with 10 years' experience translating complex biological data into therapeutic insights, currently leading methods development at Microbiotica. He combines a PhD in Bioinformatics with hands-on delivery of clinical lead lists and high-performance reproducible tools, including a Swift5 GUI that packaged analysis into a user-friendly, production-ready workflow. Equally comfortable in statistical genetics, chromatin analysis, genome assembly and microbiome functional profiling, he rapidly acquires domain knowledge to build novel analytical systems. A polyglot programmer (C#, C++, Python, R, Perl, Swift), he pairs computational craftsmanship with practical product focus—having also implemented real-time trading algorithms and small games—bringing an unusual mix of scientific rigor and software engineering. Based in South Cambridgeshire, he is known for turning exploratory research into auditable, high-performance pipelines that accelerate microbiome drug discovery.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddBachelor of Arts - BA, English and Computing, 2:1, Bachelor of Arts - BA, English and Computing, 2:1 at University of DerbyMaster of Science - MS, Bioinformatics, Merit, Master of Science - MS, Bioinformatics, Merit at King's College London
Github Skills (7)
depth7
ansible-collections6
scaffold5
origami5
memory-management4
linkage4
chromium3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
OliverCardiff/Nanochrome_scaffolder
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
Combines low depth 10x Chromium linkage with low depth nanopore long-reads to scaffold difficult assemblies
Contributions:66 commits, 2 PRs, 64 pushes in 4 months
scaffoldmemory-management10xlinkagelong-reads
OliverCardiff/Useful_R_and_Perl_Scripts
Aug 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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