David Richardson
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Sean Sabbage
Dave is one of the first people that comes to mind when I think about great managers. He's compassionate and empathic, good at keeping a team's morale high while also on track and delivering results. He looks after his team, extends trust, and makes sure everyone's working towards the same goal. Dave is an excellent communicator, and a skilled engineer who's able to dig deeply into technical problems and solutions. I'd jump at a chance to work with him again!
Gareth Rogers
I've worked with Dave for the past few months as his direct report. I've always felt comfortable in our one-to-ones and can bring up any topic. He took over a merged team at a difficult time and brought the two halves together, empowering us to make decisions on the best team processes. Dave is an excellent manager, lead and engineer. He asks good questions and has represented us well with our stakeholders and with other senior team leads.
Sean Sabbage
Dave is one of the first people that comes to mind when I think about great managers. He's compassionate and empathic, good at keeping a team's morale high while also on track and delivering results. He looks after his team, extends trust, and makes sure everyone's working towards the same goal. Dave is an excellent communicator, and a skilled engineer who's able to dig deeply into technical problems and solutions. I'd jump at a chance to work with him again!
Gareth Rogers
I've worked with Dave for the past few months as his direct report. I've always felt comfortable in our one-to-ones and can bring up any topic. He took over a merged team at a difficult time and brought the two halves together, empowering us to make decisions on the best team processes. Dave is an excellent manager, lead and engineer. He asks good questions and has represented us well with our stakeholders and with other senior team leads.
Sean Sabbage
Dave is one of the first people that comes to mind when I think about great managers. He's compassionate and empathic, good at keeping a team's morale high while also on track and delivering results. He looks after his team, extends trust, and makes sure everyone's working towards the same goal. Dave is an excellent communicator, and a skilled engineer who's able to dig deeply into technical problems and solutions. I'd jump at a chance to work with him again!
Gareth Rogers
I've worked with Dave for the past few months as his direct report. I've always felt comfortable in our one-to-ones and can bring up any topic. He took over a merged team at a difficult time and brought the two halves together, empowering us to make decisions on the best team processes. Dave is an excellent manager, lead and engineer. He asks good questions and has represented us well with our stakeholders and with other senior team leads.
Sean Sabbage
Dave is one of the first people that comes to mind when I think about great managers. He's compassionate and empathic, good at keeping a team's morale high while also on track and delivering results. He looks after his team, extends trust, and makes sure everyone's working towards the same goal. Dave is an excellent communicator, and a skilled engineer who's able to dig deeply into technical problems and solutions. I'd jump at a chance to work with him again!
Gareth Rogers
I've worked with Dave for the past few months as his direct report. I've always felt comfortable in our one-to-ones and can bring up any topic. He took over a merged team at a difficult time and brought the two halves together, empowering us to make decisions on the best team processes. Dave is an excellent manager, lead and engineer. He asks good questions and has represented us well with our stakeholders and with other senior team leads.
Credentials
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Embracing Unexpected Change
LinkedInMar, 2022- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Varda - Field Data Exchange
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Switzerland
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Farming
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1 - 100 Employee
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Data Lead
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Jun 2023 - Present
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Healx
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United Kingdom
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Biotechnology Research
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1 - 100 Employee
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Engineering Manager (Software Engineering Team)
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Dec 2022 - May 2023
Leading the Software Engineering team, supporting Healx’s data platforms and knowledge base.Establishing a new team from 4 teams following company-wide restructuring.
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Engineering Manager (Scientific Programming)
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Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Leading the Scientific Programmer team, a multi-talented group with scientific and engineering skillsInitially focused on building up a team from individual contributors, through common rituals and by setting clear expectationsPrioritising work based on company priorities, while ensuring team members have a sustainable workload and time for personal development
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Arm
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United Kingdom
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Semiconductor Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineering Manager
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Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
Led the Engineering Analytics Platform (EAP) team, a cross-functional group of software, operations and data engineers, to support Arm’s design and verification engineers’ data needs.Key areas of work were the transition from on-premises servers to an AWS/on-prem hybrid, and building workflow-specific tooling on top of the base platform.Mentored mid-tier technical staff, improving their confidence and independence.
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Staff Software Engineer
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Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
Developing, maintaining and supporting an in-house big data platform (EAP) using Kafka, Docker Swarm, Cassandra and Scala. The team follows good agile practices, relies on CI/CD with automated unit and integration testing, with comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems. Line-management of two early-careers colleagues and one intern.Led incident response to mitigate and resolve any outages, identifying the root causes and learning from them. Ran daily stand-ups and frequent retrospectives, contributing to our continuous improvement feedback loops. Show less
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European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
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United Kingdom
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Software Engineer, Project Lead
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Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lead development of a new data ingest system, to help scientists deposit their data with archives hosted at EMBL-EBI. Working with Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB and RabbitMQ.
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Scientific Programmer
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Nov 2011 - Dec 2017
Responsible for data presentation, coordination and analysis for the Blueprint epigenome project and software infrastructure development for FAANG, working with Perl, MySQL and LSF. Designed and implemented the Blueprint data portal, and contributed to work package reports. Developed analysis pipelines for high-throughput sequencing data. Provided technical leadership while developing a new system to accept data submissions.
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Wellcome Sanger Institute
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United Kingdom
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Software Developer
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Apr 2007 - Nov 2011
Design, implementation and support of a laboratory information management system (LIMS) with approximately 200 users, using Java, Spring and Oracle RDBMS. Led development on several key modules and responsible for the team’s contribution to the EUMODIC project, principally interacting with the data coordination centre (DCC). Represented the team at consortium meetings. Used agile and user-focused development strategies. Provided hands-on training to scientific staff.
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Computer Biologist
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Jul 2005 - Apr 2007
Worked on the groupʼs analysis pipeline and result confirmation system using Java, Struts and Oracle RDBMS. Developed and maintained a web-based analysis and visualisation application. Provided troubleshooting for the groupʼs analysis pipeline as required. Provided ad hoc reports and data curation.
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Education
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2002 - 2003
The University of Manchester
MSc, Bioinformatics -
1998 - 2001
The University of Manchester
BSc, Microbiology
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