Thomas Whitington
Senior Data Scientist
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolThomas Whitington is a Senior Data Scientist based in Stockholm with 11 years of experience translating complex genomic and marketplace data into actionable product insights. He has a strong academic foundation (PhD in computational genomics) and a track record of turning bioinformatics research into production-ready algorithms and clinical reporting pipelines at Karolinska Institutet. In industry he’s focused on marketplace and ads/consumer data at Schibsted/Vend, bringing research rigor to commercial ML and analytics problems. Thomas combines statistical modeling, algorithm development and software engineering to detect subtle signals—from tumor-derived DNA fragments to user behavior patterns—helping teams deploy robust, interpretable solutions. He is comfortable moving between exploratory research and production pipelines, and has a history of publishing high-impact work (first author on a Nature Genetics paper) that informs practical product decisions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, computational genomics, PhD, computational genomics at The University of QueenslandBachelor of Science (Honours), Genetics, Bachelor of Science (Honours), Genetics at University of Adelaide
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Github Skills (11)
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Github contributions (5)
tomwhi/tomwhi.github.io
Nov 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:18 PRs, 51 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 4 months
ClinSeq/reportgen
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:36 PRs, 138 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 2 months
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