Rich Fitzjohn
Lead Scientific Developer at Genomics
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRich Fitzjohn is a Lead Scientific Developer with two decades of experience translating complex scientific problems into robust, reproducible software solutions across R, Python, C/C++, Rust and TypeScript. Based in Oxford, he leads research software engineering teams at the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and Genomics, bridging domain expertise, Agile practices and DevOps to move research from prototype to production. His background includes a PhD and a blend of academic and applied roles—from postdoctoral research to long-term engineering at Imperial College—giving him deep domain fluency in ecology and infectious disease modelling. Practical, polyglot and detail-oriented, he champions reproducible research and brings uncommon fluency in both low-level performance languages and high-level data tooling to scale computational science.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at The University of British ColumbiaMSc (Hons), Ecology, MSc (Hons), Ecology at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (4)
r-package10
api9
constellation8
docker5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vimc/montagu
Nov 2017 - Oct 2020
Deployment scripts for Montagu as a constellation of Docker services
Contributions:1958 pushes, 205 branches, 2 tags in 2 years 10 months
deploymentconstellationdocker
vimc/montagu-db-docs
Nov 2018 - Oct 2022
:books::bar_chart::books: Documentation for montagu-db
Contributions:44 pushes in 4 years
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