Azhar Deen
San Francisco, NYC, India
Summary
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SeniorAzhar Deen is a product-minded software engineer and startup co-founder with 12 years of experience building data-first systems at the intersection of biotech and storytelling. He has shipped foundational infrastructure for life-sciences teams—designing production PostgreSQL schemas, FastAPI backends, and AWS-integrated lab pipelines—to make experimental data realtime and actionable. Now leading Sekai, he’s reimagining narrative as a medium for emotional resonance and self-exploration in an AI-native world, blending technical rigor with creative product design. His background includes optimizing large-scale sequencing pipelines and developer workflows for organizations like Roche and Complete Genomics, giving him deep expertise in scalable data visualization and bioinformatics. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who turns complex scientific needs into intuitive tools and is equally comfortable shipping front-end LIMS UIs or backend data services. He pairs hands-on coding with a storyteller’s curiosity, making technical systems that serve human-centered experiences.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
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python4
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computational-biology1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ahmdeen/Biotagger-v1
Apr 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
rtedwards/splotify-backend
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 1 day
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