Sam Pritchard
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Pritchard is a Cambridge-trained final-year medical student and visiting researcher who blends clinical training with rigorous biosecurity and infectious disease research. With nine years of hands-on experience spanning outbreak surveillance, fsQCA applied to disease emergence, and policy work at the UN BWC Implementation Support Unit, he navigates the interface of science, policy, and detection systems. He complements this with technical backend development in JVM languages and Elixir, building stream production tools and Discord API projects that support real-time data workflows. Sam’s work has focused on improving timeliness and robustness of biosurveillance in resource-limited settings and scrutinising dual-use research policy in the UK, demonstrating a rare mix of quantitative methods, field-aware public health insight, and software engineering. Based in the UK, he’s as comfortable teaching outbreak investigation to undergraduates as he is contributing code that enables practical, production-grade data pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery - MB BChir, Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery - MB BChir at University of CambridgeMaster of Science - MSc Control of Infectious Diseases, Master of Science - MSc Control of Infectious Diseases at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of LondonWells Cathedral School
German, English
Github Skills (60)
docker10
non-blocking10
javadoc10
reactive10
discord10
websocket10
voip10
java10
audio10
api10
rest10
discord-bot10
lavaplayer10
spring-boot10
rest-api10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
luaugg/weebpotion
Nov 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
SamOphis/LavaClient
May 2018 - Apr 2019
A Fast Lavalink Client implementation written in Java without any dependencies on a specific Discord API Library.
Contributions:17 releases, 157 commits, 13 PRs in 10 months
discordjava
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