Øyvind Almelid
Software Engineer Technical Lead at Genomics England
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolØyvind Almelid is a Software Engineer and Technical Lead with nine years of experience building scalable, sustainable systems at the intersection of software engineering and scientific research. He combines a PhD in elementary particle physics with hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure, API design, microservices, and Linux server management to deliver everything from rapid prototypes to long-lived production services. At Genomics England and the University of Edinburgh he has led bioinformatics pipeline and web platform work, including a nextflow pipeline processing terabytes of ChIP-seq data and a fast-recovered recruitment site launched after a year-long delay. His background spans Java microservices, serverless variant stores, and orchestration of complex deployments, and he is comfortable contributing across R&D, development, and operations. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture and delivery-focused leadership that bridges research rigor with production-grade engineering. He enjoys working at the boundary of science and software, turning complex biological questions into reliable, deployable systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Elementary Particle Physics at The University of EdinburghNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (30)
parsing9
hyper9
deserialization9
serde9
xml9
rust8
parser8
swagger8
http8
io-uring8
json8
serialization7
swagger-codegen7
openapi6
codegen6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
oa-metaswitch/serde-xml-rs
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
serderustxmlserializationparser
Metaswitch/serde-xml-rs
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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