Anish Chakka
Bioinformatics Manager
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnish Chakka is a Bioinformatics Manager with 10 years of experience building and operationalizing large-scale genomics pipelines across cancer research and neuroscience. He founded and leads the Bioinformatics Core at the Allen Institute, driving end-to-end processing, QC, and cloud-enabled scaling of single-cell and multi-omics datasets for projects like the Allen Brain Atlas. His technical depth spans RNA-seq, WES/WGS, scATAC, Multiome, Patch-seq, and spatial transcriptomics, combined with hands-on pipeline standardization, version control, and migration from on-prem HPC to AWS. Anish pairs technical leadership with mentorship, guiding analysts and interns while fostering cross-functional collaboration between wet lab and computational teams. He has contributed to major consortia such as TCGA and AURORA US and was institutionally recognized for founding the BI Core. Known for turning complex sequencing workflows into reproducible, documented operations, he balances deep computational skill with pragmatic team-building.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
SRM UniversityMaster of Science, Computational Biology, Master of Science, Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Telugu, Hindi, Tamil
Github Skills (20)
vep10
maf10
perl9
genomics8
bioinformatics8
cancer-genomics5
summarize5
r3
visualize2
matching2
visualization2
sequencing2
webgl1
seurat1
spatial1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
anishbhaswanth/rnaseq
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
This repository contains all the scripts necessary to perform RNA-Seq analysis on HTC CRC Pitt.
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 3 days
rna-seq-analysisbioinformaticscrcrna-seqseq
anishchakka/misc_codes
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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