From medical doctor to rust developer - interview with our new Senior Clinical Research Fellow

Dr. Caroline Morton shares her journey from a medical doctor to a Rust developer and her current work as a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, where she focuses on building reproducible data pipelines for the Genes and Health project. She discusses her path into coding, which began with a part-time Master's in Epidemiology where she fell in love with programming, eventually leading her to use Rust and Python to tackle complex problems in the medical field. Her PhD research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine aims to create synthetic data for electronic health record research to maintain privacy while allowing the sharing of research code. Dr. Morton is interested in using SurrealDB for its capabilities in handling complex data structures and live querying, which could significantly benefit her work. She also emphasizes the importance of community and resources in encouraging more women to transition from data science to software development, promoting initiatives like Women Who Code and One Health Tech. Additionally, she highlights the launch of the Women in Rust series and a new Discord channel for women in the SurrealDB community, aiming to foster support and collaboration.