Genivaldo Silva
Staff Bioinformatics Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolGenivaldo Silva is a Staff Bioinformatics Engineer with 14+ years of hands-on experience building and optimizing production-grade NGS pipelines, assay designs, and target enrichment solutions for both research and clinical applications. He has driven large performance improvements—up to 1000x—in bioinformatics workflows while integrating CI/CD, containerization, and cloud execution to ensure scalable, auditable deployments. His work spans microbial detection, precision metagenomics, and exome/target enrichment panels, including contributions to IDbyDNA/Illumina panels and Helix’s FDA-authorized exome platform. A collaborative bridge between wet-lab scientists and field application teams, he translates experimental needs into robust automated pipelines and QC frameworks. Unusually for someone at his level, he also engineered a microbial data compression approach that reduced storage by ~90% with minimal sensitivity loss, reflecting a pragmatic mix of algorithmic rigor and production focus. Based in San Diego, he pairs a PhD in computational science with a track record of published research and cross-disciplinary mentorship.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computatioanal Science with emphasis in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computatioanal Science with emphasis in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at San Diego State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computatioanal Science with emphasis in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computatioanal Science with emphasis in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Claremont Graduate UniversityU.S Equivalency: B.S in Computer Science, U.S Equivalency: B.S in Computer Science at Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
Portuguese, English, Spanish, Japanese
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Github Skills (31)
package-management10
annotations10
conda10
shotgun10
functional-analysis10
microbiome10
bioinformatics10
agile10
bioconda10
metagenomics10
genomics9
mediawiki8
dictionary6
windows6
biopython6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
metageni/Scaffold_builder
Oct 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:4 releases, 6 commits, 9 pushes in 5 years
metageni/SUPER-FOCUS
Oct 2016 - Apr 2022
A tool for agile functional analysis of shotgun metagenomic data
Contributions:16 releases, 10 reviews, 46 commits in 5 years 6 months
metagenomicsannotationsfunctional-analysisagilebioinformatics
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