Carlos De Niz
Staff Scientist at Caris Life Sciences
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCarlos De Niz is a Staff Scientist in Boston with a PhD-trained background in bioinformatics and over a decade of technical experience focused on cancer genomics, biomarker discovery, and applied machine learning. At Caris Life Sciences he has progressed from data scientist to staff scientist leading NGS variant analysis, pharmacogenomics applications, and DevOps-driven pipeline development for clinical profiling and population stratification. His work bridges academic rigor from a Harvard DBMI research fellowship with practical industry impact, translating genomic signals into actionable therapy assessment. Earlier roles in engineering and internships at IBM and Philips reflect a rare combination of electrical engineering discipline and computational biology expertise. He is notable for moving seamlessly between hands-on pipeline engineering and statistical genomic analysis, enabling reproducible bioinformatics workflows used in clinical research.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering - Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering - Bioinformatics at Texas Tech UniversityElectronics Engineer Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Electronics Engineer Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Tecnologico de Morelia
English, French, Spanish, Serbian, German
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Github Skills (36)
hail10
genetics10
gwas10
spin9
bioinformatics9
aws-glue9
genomics9
aurora9
emr8
jupyter7
aws7
pipeline7
python7
athena7
scalable6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hms-dbmi/hail-on-EMR
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
EMR cluster creation and Hail 0.2 installation
Contributions:100 commits, 93 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
hailemremr-clusterinstallationkubernetes
hms-dbmi/hail-workshop-2019
Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:25 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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