Peter Saffrey
Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Saffrey is a Principal Scientific Software Engineer with over two decades of experience building production bioinformatics and genomics platforms and leading cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, usable systems. He combines deep technical craftsmanship—spanning cloud infrastructure, data and pipeline engineering, and AI-driven chemical modelling—with empathetic leadership that turns vague research needs into auditable, field-ready products. His career highlights include halving cloud costs while supporting ISO9001 auditability, rescuing customer-facing installs to reduce incident rates dramatically, and shipping visualization and tertiary-analysis tools that unlocked new scientific value. Equally at home in hands-on coding and strategic roadmap work, he repeatedly bridges the gap between non-technical stakeholders and engineering teams to build trust and shared ownership. Based in the UK and holding a PhD in Computing Science, he still pursues the thrill of discovering powerful new tools—most recently around deploying AI—to make people’s lives and workflows measurably better.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science at University of BirminghamPhD, Computing Science, PhD, Computing Science at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (34)
common-workflow-language9
sdk9
discourse8
science8
reference-implementation8
reproducible-science7
python7
progress-bar6
pipeline6
aws5
pipeline-framework5
ruler5
console5
slurm5
gridengine4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
basespace/LaunchSpace
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
psaffrey-illumina/apprentice_test
Jul 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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