Victoria Offord
CASM Informatics Team Leader
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolVictoria Offord is a bioinformatics and software leader with nine years' experience delivering production-grade pipelines and multi-omic analyses at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. As CASM Informatics Team Leader and former Principal Bioinformatician she combines hands-on software development, pipeline product ownership (e.g., QUANTS) and team management to drive large-scale genomics projects, including institute-level saturation genome editing and international consortia work. Her background spans academia and industry—from a PhD in Bioinformatics and Molecular Immunology to maintaining HPC infrastructure and teaching high-impact courses—so she bridges deep computational expertise with clear science communication. Colleagues value her ability to translate complex experimental designs into FAIR, reproducible analyses and pragmatic software tools that enable collaborative discovery.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics and Molecular Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics and Molecular Immunology at Royal Veterinary College, U. of LondonMaster of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics, Distinction, Master of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics, Distinction at University of Exeter
English
Github Skills (66)
next-generation-sequencing9
bioinformatics9
perl-module9
sequencing9
infectious-diseases9
pathogen9
fasta8
fastq-files8
genomics8
six7
bioconda7
rna-seq7
r-package7
conda7
assembly7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
vaofford/deago
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:6 releases, 21 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 7 months
cancerit/C-SAR
Sep 2021 - Apr 2023
Data will be added ahead of poster/conference
Contributions:5 reviews, 17 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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