Benjamin Vaisvil
Staff Software Engineer - Bioinformatics
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Vaisvil is a Staff Software Engineer in bioinformatics with 13 years of experience building scalable genomics platforms, pipelines, and interactive analysis tools for industry and research. He led development of ERGO 2.0 and cloud-native RNA-Seq, amplicon, and variant analysis pipelines used by NIH, Pfizer, USDA and others, and has operational experience driving SOC 2 Type II readiness. Comfortable across the full stack, he contributes to open-source projects from Biopython to cross-platform sysinfo libraries and builds polished TUIs and visualization components (e.g., Zenith). His background blends formal CS training (MS, DePaul) with deep domain fluency in statistics and biology, making him an “accidental biologist” who turns complex genomics problems into production software. Based in Chicago, he pairs hands-on implementation with product and security leadership, and has a track record of improving code robustness and cross-platform compatibility in community projects.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Benedictine UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at DePaul University
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Github Skills (23)
system-programming10
multiplatform10
python10
windows10
linux10
biopython10
cross-platform10
sequence-alignment10
refactor10
system-monitoring10
exception-handling10
bioinformatics10
macos10
refactoring10
rust10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bvaisvil/zenith
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 6 reviews, 356 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin has made several commits, initially setting up the core application with a focus on Terminal User Interface (TUI) examples. Subsequent commits focused on implementing the display of relevant system information such as CPU, memory, network, and disk usage within the TUI. The user implemented various visualization components including Sparklines and BarCharts to display system metrics. Finally, the user refactored and reorganized components into modules.
cpuchartshtopgpudisk
GuillaumeGomez/sysinfo
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Cross-platform library to fetch system information
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to enhancing system information retrieval across multiple operating systems, as evidenced by the commits. Their work focused on adding disk usage metrics for processes on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Furthermore, the user refactored code, fixed compilation issues, and implemented the necessary traits and functions to ensure cross-platform compatibility for the library.
unixwindowsrustraspberrylinux
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