Vackar Afzal
Director Of Engineering at DaltonTx
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVackar Afzal is a Director of Engineering based in Dundee with over a decade of experience designing and leading complex platform and integration efforts for biotech and research-focused organisations. He has progressed from hands-on software engineering roles at universities and translational medicine projects to senior platform leadership at Exscientia, Recursion, and DaltonTx, blending deep domain knowledge in data-intensive scientific systems with pragmatic delivery. Comfortable across backend stacks (Python, Oracle) and front-end frameworks historically used in science workflows, he specialises in building resilient infrastructure that helps scientists manage large, heterogeneous datasets. Known for translating research requirements into production-grade platforms, he pairs architectural vision with an operator’s attention to build and deployment processes. His career shows a pattern of stepping into fast-evolving teams to stabilise and scale platforms—often where biology, data and software intersect.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MPhil Computer Science, MPhil Computer Science at University of LancasterBsc Applied Computing, Bsc Applied Computing at University of Dundee
English, Punjabi, Urdu
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Github Skills (75)
django9
python8
excel8
django-framework8
orm8
grid8
data-management7
spreadsheet7
django-field7
integrate7
columns7
grids7
angular-material6
datagrid6
vue-table6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Exscientia/oracle-json-field
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
A Django field that adds support for native json columns
Contributions:4 commits, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 11 months
pythondjangojson-datafieldcolumns
VackarAfzal/django-rest-autogen
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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