He obtained his initial degree at Imperial College and after a period developing software for structural analysis he moved to EPFL where he obtained his PhD in 2002. Since then he has been involved extensively with complex application development, spending 5 years as a Senior Developer / Project Leader for a biotech company, SmartGene SA, where he was responsible for the development of several flagship products, including a sequence proofreader and a HLA matching tool. He joined SOPHiA GENETICS in July 2012 after 4 years as an independent consultant working on various SaaS, science based projects.