I'm a Bioinformatician transitioning into platform / DevOps engineering, based in Cardiff, UK.
I've spent the last 7+ years analysing high-dimensional biomedical data (multi-omics, single-cell, proteomics, EHR) on HPC clusters.
These days I'm also running a Talos Linux + Flux GitOps Kubernetes cluster at home β now provisioned end-to-end with OpenTofu (siderolabs/talos + bpg/proxmox), migrating my self-hosted services onto it, and writing about the journey.
Currently looking for Research Software Engineer, Platform Engineer, or DevOps roles β UK-remote or Cardiff-local.
- π Homelab repo (GitOps K8s + self-hosted services): H-Mateus/homelab
- π Blog series on the homelab: mateusharrington.com
Data Pipelines / Reproducibility
- ποΈ Platform & infra: GitOps Kubernetes (Talos + Flux), OpenTofu IaC for the cluster, zero-trust networking with Tailscale, ZFS/CSI persistent storage, observability with Prometheus + Grafana
- 𧬠Multi-omics & single-cell analysis (snRNA-seq / scRNA-seq, proteomics, EHR)
- βοΈ Reproducible pipelines on HPC β workflow automation, containers, version control
- π Statistical modelling for biomedical questions (Bayesian + frequentist)
- π§βπ« Training & community β R teaching, reproducibility workshops, open science
- Migrating self-hosted services from Docker Compose (TrueNAS) onto the GitOps Kubernetes cluster
- Working toward AWS Solutions Architect β Associate certification
- Structured study of Go and Rust (Boot.dev course series + small projects)
- π mateusharrington.com (site + blog)
- πΌ LinkedIn: gmb-harrington
- π ORCID: 0000-0001-6075-3619
If you're hiring for RSE, platform, or DevOps roles in the UK (remote or Cardiff), I'd love to hear from you.


