Piero Pezze
Lead Bioinformatics Engineer
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPiero Pezze is a lead bioinformatics engineer based in Cambridge with 11 years of experience designing and shipping scalable NGS pipelines and production-grade bioinformatics software. He has driven large cohort and pathogen sequencing projects—scaling SARS-CoV-2 processing to 100k samples/week on AWS EKS—and currently leads engineering efforts at Genomics England while managing and coaching cross-functional squads. Skilled in Python, Nextflow, Snakemake and automated testing, he focuses on robustness, modularity and eliminating tech debt to make pipelines reproducible and maintainable. His background spans computational biology research (PhD) through industry pipeline architecture, giving him a rare combination of modelling depth and production engineering discipline. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design trade-offs, clear documentation for regulatory stakeholders, and mentoring engineers to adopt software-engineering best practices.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Università degli Studi di PadovaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Systems Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Systems Biology at Newcastle UniversityMaturita` Scientifica Natural Sciences, Maturita` Scientifica Natural Sciences at Liceo Scientifico `Ettore Majorana` - Mirano (VE), Italy
English, Italian, German
Github Skills (62)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pdp10/BamQC
Jan 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 16 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 1 month
program-analysis
pdp10/vimrc
Feb 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:80 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 4 months
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