Dan Staines
Lead Engineer - Software at Featurespace
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Staines is a seasoned lead engineer with 16+ years building full-stack, data-intensive systems at the intersection of life sciences and fraud-detection software, currently leading engineering at Featurespace in Greater Cambridge. He combines a PhD in Biochemistry with deep practical expertise in Java, Python, C, Perl and distributed architectures (Spring, Flask, Celery, RabbitMQ) to design robust APIs, scalable services and complex data integrations across SQL, NoSQL and search platforms. Dan has progressed from hands-on developer and research roles at EMBL-EBI to senior engineering leadership—managing teams up to ten and coordinating multi-disciplinary research and delivery projects. His background in bioinformatics gives him an uncommon ability to translate scientific data challenges into production-grade software, and he’s known for moving between low-level systems work and strategic technical delivery.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Biochemistry, Ph.D. Biochemistry at University of CambridgeB.Sc. Molecular Biology, B.Sc. Molecular Biology at University of Leicester
Github Skills (45)
metadata10
perl10
genomes10
api10
sql10
biomart10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
querying10
comparative-genomics10
database10
mysql9
nim-lang9
python9
databases9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Ensembl/ensembl-metadata
Jun 2013 - May 2018
API for storing and querying metadata from Ensembl and EnsemblGenomes
Contributions:308 commits, 99 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
apiqueryingensemblstoringmetadata
Ensembl/gti-genesearch
Oct 2015 - May 2018
Query manager and REST interface to Advanced Search
Contributions:683 commits, 140 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 7 months
rest
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