Summary
Seán O'callaghan is an Associate Director of Data Science and AI with a decade of experience bridging bioinformatics, data engineering, and production-scale cloud systems in the biotech sector. He has progressed from hands-on proteomics and metabolomics analysis to leading omics data engineering and CloudSCAPE initiatives at Novartis, combining deep domain knowledge in mass spectrometry with robust engineering skills in Python, Docker, Airflow and cloud platforms. Comfortable coding in C, Fortran, Perl and R as well as modern data stacks, he reliably turns large, messy biological datasets into scalable pipelines and actionable insights. His background in electrical and electronic engineering underpins a pragmatic approach to instrumentation-derived data challenges, and he has a track record of building tools and training diverse scientific users to get the most from complex datasets.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.E.(Hons), Electrical & Electronic Engineering, B.E.(Hons), Electrical & Electronic Engineering at University College Cork