Deepak Unni
Scientific Coordinator
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDeepak Unni is a Scientific Coordinator and Knowledge Engineer based in Basel with over a decade of experience building FAIR, ontology-driven data infrastructures for translational and clinical research. He leads semantic modeling and standards work for the Swiss Personalized Health Network, aligning SNOMED CT, LOINC and OBO ontologies to harmonize patient-level and research data across hospitals. Previously he implemented FAIR metadata schemas and modular services at EMBL and contributed to major bioinformatics open-source initiatives at Berkeley Lab, applying knowledge-graph architectures and reproducible ETL pipelines. Deepak blends hands-on software development with domain expertise in genomics and biomedical semantics, enabling scalable data integration from clinical systems to research platforms. He is comfortable in both national governance arenas and developer trenches, contributing APIs and tools that make interoperable health data practical for cross-institutional use. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex ontology and metadata standards into usable engineering solutions that drive real-world data reuse.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Bioinformatics, Master of Science - MS, Bioinformatics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Bioinformatics, Bachelor's degree, Bioinformatics at Dr. D.Y.Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune
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Github Skills (173)
javascript-client10
python10
json-schema10
ontology10
java-server10
semantic-web10
metadata10
linkml10
shex10
shacl10
specification10
genomics10
owl10
apollo10
backend10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
elsiklab/intermine
Apr 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:106 pushes, 6 branches, 5 comments in 9 months
data-sourcewarehousedatasqldatabase
biolink/kgx
May 2018 - Sep 2021
KGX is a Python library for exchanging Knowledge Graphs
Contributions:11 releases, 10 reviews, 629 commits in 3 years 4 months
python-librarypythonknowledgebiolink-modelknowledge-graph
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