Geet Duggal
Software Engineer And Manager at Verkada
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeet Duggal is a software engineer and manager with 17 years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer-facing tools, currently contributing to Verkada’s camera product line. With a PhD from Carnegie Mellon in Computational Biology and a prior research stint at the NSA/DoD, he blends rigorous research instincts with practical engineering leadership. As Senior Director of Engineering at DNAnexus he grew and led cross-regional teams, designed production-scale stress tests that simulate millions of compute instances, and delivered solutions for partners like St. Jude and the UK Biobank. His technical focus spans APIs, compilers for workflow languages, high-throughput networking, and cloud memoization across AWS/Azure. He is passionate about people-centric engineering, improving developer experience, and translating complex genomics and systems research into reliable production platforms. A detail many miss: his academic work has amassed over 8,500 citations, reflecting deep domain impact beyond product delivery.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Northwestern UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (60)
genome10
reproducible-science10
python10
cromwell10
barrage10
wake-on-lan10
bioinformatics10
seq9
sequencing9
gene-expression9
specification9
quantities9
genomics9
wdl9
rna-seq8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
geetduggal/wrap-lines
May 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year
atomwraplines
kingsfordgroup/armatus
Jul 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:1 release, 31 commits, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
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