Peter Harrison
Interim Chief Technology Officer at Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPeter Harrison is an experienced technology leader and interim CTO at Health Data Research UK, driving strategy and delivery of secure, scalable platforms that enable ethical access to health data for research and innovation. With 12+ years bridging genomics research and production engineering, he has led teams that power major resources such as the European Nucleotide Archive, Ensembl Genomes, and HDR UK’s Gateway and Cohort Discovery services. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Biology, MRes in Bioinformatics) with hands-on program and product leadership across large collaborative data portals, demonstrating a knack for translating complex biological data needs into interoperable infrastructure. Known for fostering cross-sector partnerships (ELIXIR, GA4GH) and building trusted systems for sensitive data, he prioritises standards, transparency and reproducibility. A less obvious strength is his track record of scaling teams and embedding scientific workflows into robust delivery pipelines, enabling research projects from Darwin Tree of Life to COVID-19 data efforts to move from collection to global use.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA), Biological Sciences, Master of Arts (MA), Biological Sciences at University of OxfordDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology at University of York
English
Github Skills (48)
metadata10
schema10
schema-validation9
genomes9
portal9
data-catalog8
genome8
seq8
frontend6
genomics6
validate6
sequence6
backend6
bioinformatics6
validation6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
EBiSC/gca_ebisc
Sep 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 111 pushes, 33 branches in 2 years 5 months
ebipython
EMBL-EBI-GCA/literature_mining_ids
Aug 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:389 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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