About
Software Engineer with a background in Bioinformatics building web applications and working with data.
Work Experience
● Developing open source modular web applications and data dashboards on cloud with automated tests and CI/CD following agile methodology.
● Contributing to open source packages and tools with new features, improvements, code reviews and content.
● Collaborating with marketing and sales teams; conducting technical experiments to assist in business expansion & market research.
● Authoring technical tutorials and blog posts.
Example - appsilon.github.io/shiny.fluent/a…
Contributed to the official {Shiny.fluent} package vignettes for building apps with {Rhino} and {Shiny.fluent} packages combined.
Skills: python · R · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Linux · Git · CI · Agile Methodologies · HTML · Front-end Development · Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) · bash · GitHub
● Delivered dockerized solutions, set up and maintained CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments on cloud platforms.
● Provided support & observability with Prometheus for Kubernetes clusters on AWS for prod, dev and test platforms.
● Shipped product features to run data workflows with optimized resources using Nextflow. Reduced computation time by 75%.
● Built a RShiny web application enabling solutions for biomedical data analysis and visualization based B2B SaaS products.
● Provided Tier 2 & Tier 3 technical support. Contributed to increase in monthly active users and revenue for the products.
● Led small teams with product delivery, technical mentorship and best coding practices relevant to the industry.
Skills: python · R · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Linux · Docker Products · CircleCI · Jira · REST APIs · Agile Methodologies · Bioinformatics
● Worked with Dr. Gayatri Saberwal, PhD, Professor and Dean (Academic Affairs), IBAB, Bengaluru, in the Policy Research Team.
● Performed limited audits using publicly available data from FDA, ClinicalTrials.Gov and Clinical Trials Registry-India.
● Automated data mining and web scraping using python and R, leading to creation of up-to-date SQLite databases.
● Created data dashboards for effective team communication using Streamlit and increasing productivity.
● Reduced manual effort by 70%, contributed and authored multiple scientific publications.
● Publications - doi.org/10.1371/journa…, doi.org/10.20529/IJME.…,
doi.org/10.1371/journa…, doi.org/10.1371/journa…, doi.org/10.35122/001c.….
Skills: python · R · SQLite · MySQL · HTML · Microsoft Excel
Volunteering
Streamlit Creators are community members who have set themselves apart — be it for helping other users, for deploying inspiring apps, for developing magical components, or all of the above. Creators get direct access to Streamlit developers, to the latest betas and prototypes, to internal roadmap conversations.
● Reviewing technical content, fixing syntax errors in codes, reporting missing data sources and identifying unreliable implementations. Publishing codes on GitHub for the open source community.
● Published - Machine Learning in Biotechnology and Life Sciences: Build machine learning models using Python and deploy them on the cloud amazon.in/gp/product/180… (ISBN: 9781801811910). Book published on January 28, 2022. Reviewer information available in “About the reviewers” section on page 3.
● Published - Applied Machine Learning for Healthcare and Life Sciences Using AWS amazon.in/gp/product/180… (ISBN: 9781804610213). Book published on November 25, 2022. Reviewer information available in “About the reviewers” section on page 3.
● Maintaining open-source code in official lesson GitHub repository -
github.com/swcarpentry/py…
● Making sure that lessons stay up-to-date, accurate, functional and cohesive.
● Collaborating with open source contributors and reviewing Pull Requests.
Checkout carpentries.org/blog/2022/06/n…
Education
Grade: 8.46/10
Bronze Medal Awardee