Misha Kapushesky
• United Kingdom
• biotechnology
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Misha Kapushesky
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Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Current:
- Software Development Lead at EBI
Past:
- Scientific Applications Programmer at EBI
- Senior Software Engineer at Kanda Software
- Program
Education:
- University of Cambridge
- Cornell University
People Network: 64
Industry: Biotechnology
Misha Kapushesky’s Summary
An experienced (10+ years) technical lead/senior software engineer capable of delivering sophisticated data-driven applications for the web, the desktop and server-side, under tight deadlines, tough pressures and complex requirements. Strong background in project management, enterprise development for service-oriented architectures and in statistical data analysis and visualization. A sharp, flexible mind for challenging problems requiring rapid, innovative solutions in a dynamic, customer-facing environment.
Software Development Lead
EBI
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Biotechnology industry)
August 2005 — Present (2 years 10 months)
• Leader of the Gene Expression Atlas R&D project joint among several EBI teams.
• Managed the team software engineering process: source control, continuous integration, issue tracking, unified documentation process, adapted Agile methodology to team needs.
• Identified use cases, wrote the requirements and prototyped the development of the ArrayExpress Java EE 5 infrastructure.
• Successfully applied for a BBSRC grant for the development of Web Services/GUIs for an integrated R/Bioconductor/Java & ArrayExpress distributed computing back-end; managed the development of this project.
• Designed and implemented a meta-analytical framework with quantitative relevance ranking for differential gene expression analysis across the entire ArrayExpress Warehouse data store.
• Designed and implemented the web interface for the ArrayExpress Repository with multi-format content delivery (RSS, SOAP and REST Web Services).
• Taught workshops and courses on advanced microarray data analysis.
Eductional Details:
University of Cambridge
PhD, Genetics, 2005 — 2008 (expected)
Large-scale data mining and integration for predicting specific mediators and targets of gene-regulatory signalling pathways.
- Activities and Societies:
- Magdalene College