Victoria Offord
Engineering Manager at Our Future Health UK
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 CollegeMaster of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics at University of Exeter
English
Github Skills (50)
next-generation-sequencing10
fastq-files10
infectious-diseases10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
pathogen10
fastq9
perl-module9
r-library8
r7
rna-seq7
fasta6
sequence6
conda6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
sanger-pathogens/pathogen-informatics-training
Nov 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:120 commits, 27 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 2 months
genomicssequencingnext-generation-sequencingbioinformaticsglobal-health
vaofford/deago
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:6 releases, 21 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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