Augusto Rendon holds an undergraduate degree in Physics from the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. Rendon undertook his PhD at the University of Toronto in the Department of Medical Biophysics. Rendon then moved to the University of Cambridge to pursue postdoctoral work in computational biology and statistical genomics. Rendon currently holds a Principal Research Associate position at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Haematology. Since 2014 Rendon has been seconded to Genomics England as Director of Bioinformatics. There, Rendon leads a team of over 50 developers, analysts, bioinformaticians, and curators. Rendon's team is responsible for establishing pipelines to analyse and manage all genomic data for the UK 100,000 genomes project and the future NHS Genomic Medicine Service. They have designed and implemented the clinical interpretation pipelines that return findings to patients, while ensuring that knowledge accumulated through this process is best exploited to improve patient care and enhance discovery. These days, Rendon spends most of his time focusing on the human, scientific, and technological aspects of building large, resilient, [bio]informatics, systems for genomic medicine. Rendon is hoping to jump on the machine learning bandwagon using clinical and genomic data.