Samantha Pendleton
Software Data Engineer
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Pendleton is a Software Data Engineer with a PhD in Clinical Informatics and a decade of experience turning messy clinical trial data into reliable, reproducible datasets and analytics. Based in the Greater Oxford Area, she currently engineers data pipelines and tooling at the University of Oxford after contributing to the Oxford–Novartis Multiple Sclerosis collaboration where she combined Python/R data wrangling with version-controlled derivations and preliminary statistical analysis. Her background spans academic research, teaching support in computational biology, and hands-on bioinformatics work with nanopore sequencing tools, giving her a rare blend of domain knowledge and practical engineering. Samantha emphasizes reproducibility and long-term project support, often embedding best-practice version control and derivation logic into research workflows. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex clinical research questions into auditable data products that accelerate discovery.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at Aberystwyth UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Clinical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Clinical Informatics at University of BirminghamChesterfield High School
English
Github Skills (39)
text-mining10
swrl9
ontologies9
grep9
ontology9
owl9
prediction9
open-access8
python8
journal8
academia7
semantics7
creative-commons6
semantic-web6
crowd6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sap218/cyannotator
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 4 issues in 5 years 4 months
sap218/jabberwocky
Dec 2019 - May 2021
NLP toolkit for those nonsensical ontologies
Contributions:3 releases, 118 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 5 months
obofoundryontologiesowlgrepjabberwocky
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