Dr Matthew Vernon, MRCVS

Principal Systems Administrator

Alumni

This person is a member of Sanger Institute Alumni.

Matthew left the Sanger in 2021 after five years to work at the Wikimedia Foundation as a Site Reliability Engineer.

Matthew was part of the Informatics Support Group (ISG) at Sanger. He was most heavily involved in maintaining and developing the institute's Ceph clusters.

Matthew joined the Sanger in 2016. Prior to that, he worked at the University of Cambridge in the Computing Service. Before moving to work in IT, he was a veterinary epidemiologist advising the Scottish Government on control of animal disease outbreaks. In 2021, Matthew left the Sanger to work for the Wikimedia Foundation as a Site Reliability Engineer.

Matthew has been a Debian developer since 1999, and has a PhD in “spatial spread of farm animal diseases”; he has spoken at a number of scientific and technical conferences in Europe and the USA.

My timeline

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation

• Principal System Administrator, Wellcome Sanger Institute

• Chairman of the Board of Scrutiny, University of Cambridge

• University Computer Officer, University of Cambridge

• Quantitative Veterinary Epidemiologist, SRUC

• Research Fellow, University of Warwick