Imogen Wright (they/them) is a Senior Engineer at Amazon EC2, where they focus on making incredibly complex systems behave. Their career spans over two decades of solving high-stakes challenges across theoretical physics, HIV drug resistance, COVID genomics, cloud technologies, and even ad tech.
Imogen co-founded Hyrax Biosciences, where their Exatype software helps track HIV drug resistance across Africa, and they led the team that assembled the very first Omicron variant SARS-CoV-2 genomes.
Imogen’s deep technical expertise is backed by an incredible academic foundation — they hold a PhD in bioinformatics and a master’s in theoretical physics from the Perimeter Institute, where Stephen Hawking was the guest of honour at their graduation.