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Mr Brendan Hosking

Pronouns: he,him,his

Senior Bioinformatics Engineer

https://people.csiro.au/h/b/brendan-hosking

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Biography

Brendan Hosking is a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer specializing in cloud-native development and sustainable bioinformatics solutions. At CSIRO, he manages the cloud infrastructure for the Transformational Bioinformatics group, focusing on leveraging cloud technologies to enhance the speed, cost-efficiency, and scalability of bioinformatics tools.

He plays a key role in developing sBeacon, a serverless implementation of the GA4GH beacon protocol, and was first author on its publication in Nature Biotechnology. His current focus is on developing cloud serverless architectures to create innovative, sustainable services in the bioinformatics space.

Academic Qualifications

  • 2015

    B. Science (Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics, Theoretical Physics)
    Australian National University

Achievements and Awards

  • Dec 2018-Dec 2018

    Domain + Digital Award
    CSIRO

  • Dec 2018-Dec 2018

    Inclusion, Trust and Respect Award
    CSIRO

Current Roles

  • Senior Bioinformatics Engineer
    Design and implement bioinformatics architectures using cloud resources, with an emphasis on serverless implementations.

Grants

  • Jul 2021-Jun 2023

    DFAT - Indonesia SARS-CoV-2 Analytics ($1M)

  • Jul 2022-Jun 2023

    Acorn ($20K)

Other highlights

  • Sep 2023-Sep 2023

    Published sBeacon in Nature Bioinformatics as first author

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