Gervaise Henry
VP, Forward Deployed Engineering · Manifold
Summary
Forward Deployed Engineering leader and computational biologist — a polymath who works across the full life-science stack: bench science, reproducible bioinformatics, cloud architecture, clinical-grade compliance, and the AI-agent layer now being built on top of it. VP, Forward Deployed Engineering at Manifold.
Experience
VP, Forward Deployed Engineering
January 2026 - Present
Manifold
Lead Forward Deployed Engineering at Manifold, the enterprise agent platform for life sciences — responsible for deploying specialist agents into customer environments and owning post-sales technical delivery while staying active in pre-sales.
VP, Head of Data Engineering
January 2025 - January 2026
Champions Oncology, Inc.
Led data infrastructure and management strategy for Champions’ research and development efforts, with responsibility for the data platform supporting multi-omics and research data workflows in alignment with FAIR principles.
Head of Professional Services Engineering
June 2024 - January 2025
DNAnexus
Led the Professional Services Engineering organization — a global team of 15–20 architects, bioinformatics engineers, services engineers, and contractors across the US, Europe, and Asia — responsible for all technical services delivery on the DNAnexus platform.
Manager, Solutions Science Engineering
February 2023 - May 2024
DNAnexus
Managed the Solutions Engineering organization through a period of leadership transition, expanding scope mid-tenure to include a subset of the Professional Services engineering team.
Senior Solutions Engineer
August 2021 - February 2023
DNAnexus
Individual contributor presales engineer supporting customers globally across all verticals, with particular depth in top-5 pharma and diagnostics.
Earlier Experience
- Computational Biologist, UT Southwestern Medical Center · September 2019 - July 2021
- Research Associate, UT Southwestern Medical Center · April 2015 - September 2019
Skills & Certifications
Top Skills:
Solutions Engineering Leadership, Genomics & Multi-Omics Platforms, Cloud Architecture (AWS)
AI & Agent Systems:
LLM Application Development, AI Agents, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Claude Code, Agentic Workflows, LLM Evaluation
Reproducibility & Compliance:
Reproducible Pipelines, GxP Validation, CLIA, HIPAA, Data Provenance & Lineage
Certifications:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner
Languages, Operating Systems & Tools:
R, Python, Nextflow, WDL, Git, Linux, Bash
Website Development:
Static Site Generators, Serverless Deployment, GitLab Pages, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
Cloud Platforms:
Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud
AWS Tools:
S3, EC2, Batch, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Certificate Manager, Route53, CloudFront, CloudTrail, Athena
Container Environments:
Docker, Singularity
Biological Modalities:
Bulk RNA-seq, Gene Expression Microarray, scRNA-seq, scTCR-seq, Spatial Transcriptomics, Variant Calling, Proteomics (Mass Spec), Molecular Biology Techniques
Education
- American University Graduated 2014Masters of Science, BiologyThesis: Adipocytes, obesity and multiple myeloma
- Eckerd College Graduated 2009Bachelors of Science, Biomedical Molecular BiologyThesis: The Search for Novel NF-kB Inhibitors from Compounds Derived from Marine Invertebrates as Potential Anti-tumor Therapies
Selected Publications
- Henry GH, Malewska A, Joseph DB, Malladi VS, Lee J, Torrealba J, Mauck RJ, Gahan JC, Raj GV, Roehrborn CG, Hon GC, MacConmara MP, Reese JC, Hutchinson RC, Vezina CM, Strand DW. A cellular anatomy of the normal human prostate. Cell Reports 2018. doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2018.11.086
- Joseph DB, Henry GH, Malewska A, Reese JC, Mauck RJ, Gahan JC, Hutchinson RC, Mohler JL, Roehrborn CG, Strand DW. 5-alpha reductase inhibitors induce a prostate luminal to club cell transition in human benign prostatic hyperplasia. The Journal of Pathology 2022. doi.org/10.1002/path.5857
Selected Presentations
- Mohta V, Farhi S, Henry GH. From Spatial Transcriptomics to Multimodal Discovery: Scaling AI Driven Genomics on Manifold. NextGen Omics, Spatial & Data US 2026. (Oral Presentation)
- Sedlakova, A, Henry GH. Efficiently Analyzing Population-Scale Genomics Data. EU Biobank Week 2024. (Oral Presentation)
Full publications, presentations, and open-source contributions in the complete CV.