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Cambridge, Ma, Us

Member of hydro.gen team within the methods group of the Broad’s Data Sciences Platform. Responsibilities include technical analysis and guidance for new sequencing technologies. Research and development of novel methods for genomic LLMs, CRISPR mediated library enrichment, joint callset filtering, structural variant detection, hybrid sequencing, rare disease discovery, and genotype to phenotype prediction, Provided technical guidance and mentorship.

I publish a variety of open source projects, available on GitHub:github.com/vishnubob

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Senior software engineer at an agricultural biotech startup. Designed and implemented LSTM and GPT2 based networks to study protein stability for the purposes of in silico evolution and protein synthesis. Designed and built a variety of imaging hardware and firmware devices to capture agricultural phenotypes, including handheld field microscopes; oversaw deployment in the field to collect phenotypic data at scale. Designed and implemented a general purpose instance segmentation. system for calling phenotypes and cell assays, based on U-NET. Assigned over two patents as inventor.

Boston, Ma, Us

Senior software engineer at a synthetic organism startup. Duties included software development, support, informatics, on demand NGS analysis with a focus on bioprospecting, genome assembly, transcriptome assembly, automated annotation and laboratory robotics. Consulted with company leadership during Gen9 acquisition

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Software developer and research consultant on project Akahba, a prototype cloud based design service for architects. Researched and developed methods to optimize architectural floor plans of office buildings.

Senior software engineer at DNA synthesis startup. Responsible for implementing backend components including production pipelines, cloud infrastructure, research and development tools, sequence analysis, codon optimization, and biosafety screening. Also contributed to database development, data visualization and various web based front-ends.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Programmer within the Computational Research and Development group primarily focused on Allpaths-LG.

Ensemble Robot (http://www.ensemblerobot.org/) is a 501(c)(3) Boston based group of artists and engineers who enjoy creating electro-mechanical instruments geared for live performance. Responsible for software development within the group. Created MIDI library and show control software in C and Python and firmware for AVR and PIC microcontrollers, written in C and assembly.

Boston, Ma, Us

Designed all bioinformatic services for the Dana-Farber Microarray Core. Responsible for all computational resources. Developed a variety of in-house analysis tools to meet various research needs including QC, automated annotation, alignment, and data visualization.