Amal Thomas
Principal Bioinformatics Software Engineer
California, United States
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Top SchoolAmal Thomas is a Principal Bioinformatics Software Engineer with a decade of experience building statistical methods and production-grade pipelines for integrative analysis of high-throughput sequencing data. She has led cloud-native NGS workflows and ML-driven QC at Gilead and 23andMe, reprocessing thousands of clinical samples and delivering cost-saving optimizations and reproducible Nextflow/Docker pipelines. Her PhD work produced a homology-independent algorithm for cross-species expression analysis, and she combines deep computational biology expertise with practical software engineering to bridge research and clinical development. Based in California, Amal is known for benchmarking toolchains to form consensus processing standards and for turning complex omics problems into automated, scalable solutions that continuously improve with data.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at University of Southern CaliforniaChavara Public School, PalaBachelor and Master of Technology (B.Tech + M.Tech), Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, Bachelor and Master of Technology (B.Tech + M.Tech), Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Hindi, English, Malayalam
Github Skills (19)
code-library7
bioinformatics5
sequencing5
geo5
metadata4
genome4
genomics4
cpp4
hla3
pipeline3
complexity3
bioconda3
nextflow3
coverage3
seq2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
amalthomas111/NCBI-fetch
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:37 commits, 15 pushes in 3 months
amalthomas111/SBF
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:127 commits, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
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