Daniela Puiu
Sr Bioinformatics Software Engineer
Jessup, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniela Puiu is a senior bioinformatics software engineer with over 20 years of experience building production-grade tools and pipelines for large-scale genome assembly and analysis. Based at Johns Hopkins, she created MitoHPC—a widely adopted mitochondrial polymorphism detector that has processed hundreds of thousands of human samples across cloud platforms—and has contributed to high-impact assemblies from the human pangenome to threatened conifers. Her work spans metagenomics, cancer and mitochondrial epidemiology, supporting GWAS that linked mitochondrial variants and lifestyle factors to disease risk, and includes web tools for gene/transcript access and extensive Linux server administration. Known for combining rigorous research collaboration (h-index 46) with hands-on engineering, she also mentors students and ensures reproducible, scalable analyses for diverse species and pathogens.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Technical University of Cluj NapocaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at William & Mary
Github Skills (9)
genome-assembly10
finder3
protein-sequences2
bioinformatics2
rna-seq2
machine-learning-workflow1
big-data1
genome-annotation1
decryption1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AshkenaziGenome/Assembly
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
This repository contains the reference genome assembly Ash1, built from data collected from an Ashkenazi individual.
Contributions:21 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years
genome-assembly
dpuiu/MitoHPC
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:10 releases, 428 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 1 month
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