Summary
Shicai Wang is a senior data engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance data platforms and APIs across academia and industry, currently at CMR Surgical after roles at Virgin Media O2 and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. He holds a PhD from Imperial College London, where he engineered a Key-Value model in HBase that outperformed relational implementations by an order of magnitude, and has repeatedly delivered large-scale ETL and data services for genomics projects like COSMIC. Skilled in Python, Java, GCP serverless tooling (Composer, Pub/Sub, Spanner), Terraform and Airflow, he blends research-grade algorithmic insight with production-grade infrastructure practices. Multiple patents and publications underscore a track record of inventive solutions that have been productized for real-world impact. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and collaborative, able to meet tight deadlines while exploring new technologies to squeeze performance and value from data.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Software Engineering, Bachelor Software Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Imperial College London
Master's Degree Software Engineering, Master's Degree Software Engineering at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences