Thomas Maurel
Data Team Lead - COSMIC Team
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Maurel is a data team lead and senior bioinformatician with 12 years’ experience building production-grade genomic data platforms, currently leading the COSMIC team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. He blends deep domain knowledge in bioinformatics and biostatistics with hands-on engineering across Perl, Python (Flask/Django), MySQL/Oracle and cloud/Unix environments to design annotation pipelines, data warehouses and APIs. Thomas focuses on data quality, harmonisation and performance, turning heterogeneous cancer genomics sources into curated, release-ready resources used by both academic and commercial users. He has led release coordination and product ownership in Agile teams and mentors a small developer team while liaising across curators, scientists and product groups. Notably, his background includes long-term production work at EBI/Ensembl, giving him rare expertise in large-scale genomic release engineering and BioMart-powered data mining. Based in Cambridge, he combines scientific rigour with pragmatic engineering to deliver high-value, reusable genomic data assets.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Licence / Bachelor, Biologie générale et sciences de la terre / Biology and earth science, Licence / Bachelor, Biologie générale et sciences de la terre / Biology and earth science at Université de Cergy-PontoiseMaster, Bioinformatique et biostatistiques / Bioinformatics and biostatistics, Master, Bioinformatique et biostatistiques / Bioinformatics and biostatistics at Université Paris Sud (Paris XI)
French, English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (57)
perl10
plugin10
genomes10
api10
bioinformatics10
predictor10
comparative-genomics10
mysql9
apl9
nim-lang9
file-parsing9
ncbi9
databases9
biomart9
sql9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thomasmaurel/ensembl
Apr 2015 - Sep 2018
The Ensembl Core Perl API and SQL schema
Contributions:17 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 6 months
sql-parserapisql-schemasql-buildernim-lang
Ensembl/ensembl-prodinf-core
Sep 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:10 releases, 139 PRs, 206 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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