Robert Stephens
Team Lead Primary Data Analysis
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Stephens is a seasoned software leader with 14 years' experience building instrument control and data-analysis software for next-generation sequencing platforms. Currently leading Primary Data Analysis at DNA Electronics, he combines hands-on C++ (STL/Boost) expertise with hardware interfaces, real-time acquisition, parallel processing and distributed web services. His background at Oxford Nanopore—rising from engineer to Associate Director of Instrument Software—reflects deep domain knowledge in sequencing instruments and high-throughput data pipelines. He is proficient across Python and JavaScript for visualization, streaming and database-backed web systems, enabling end-to-end delivery from firmware-level control to user-facing analytics. Trained as a physicist with an MRes in nanomaterials, he brings a strong experimental mindset to software design and performance tuning. Notably, he blends managerial agility with continued technical ownership, often shipping low-latency, production-grade analysis components himself.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Physics, 1st, B.Sc, Physics, 1st at Trinity College, DublinMRes, Nanomaterials, MRes, Nanomaterials at Imperial College LondonGithub contributions (2)
RobertStephens/BinVis
Dec 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:12 commits in 2 days
RobertStephens/onyxloader
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 month
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