Aidan Lakshman
Software Engineer III at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAidan Lakshman is a Software Engineer III at Google with eight years of experience building scalable storage systems, currently contributing to Google Colossus. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Pittsburgh, where he developed efficient algorithms for processing messy, large-scale genomic data and worked on clustering massive networks under tight resource constraints. Comfortable across R, C, Python and distributed computing environments, he also maintains Biostrings, a key R package for genomic analysis, and has production experience with Node.js/React and AWS serverless patterns. His background spans research and product engineering—from reconstructing ancestral genomes to reducing cloud onboarding times from hours to minutes—reflecting a rare blend of algorithmic depth and pragmatic system design. An avid tinkerer, he runs a Raspberry Pi cluster as a hobby project and cites Forth as his favorite programming language, signaling a fondness for unconventional, low-level tools.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics at University of Central FloridaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Informatics at University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineJapanese Language and Literature, Japanese Language and Literature at Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies
Japanese, English, German
Stackoverflow
65reputation
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2answers
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Github Skills (52)
extend10
workspace10
apply10
core-package10
monitor9
rstudio9
security9
datasets9
ide9
development-environment9
codemod9
computational-biology9
governance9
strings8
bioinformatics8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ahl27/ahl27.github.io
Sep 2020 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:353 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
ahl27/service-workbench-on-aws
May 2021 - Jul 2021
A platform that provides researchers with one-click access to collaborative workspace environments operating across teams, universities, and datasets while enabling university IT stakeholders to manage, monitor, and control spending, apply security best practices, and comply with corporate governance.
Contributions:118 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
monitorone-clicksecurityworkspaceapply
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