Jag Khurana
IT Manager at Panasonic Canada Inc
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJag Khurana is an IT manager with over two decades of experience architecting and maintaining enterprise systems across servers, storage, networking, virtualization and security, currently leading infrastructure at Panasonic Canada. He combines a hands-on operational mindset with process automation and monitoring to improve efficiency and service delivery, while also driving security and change management. Jag contributes to notable open-source cancer genomics software cBioPortal, adding front-end React enhancements and back-end API and caching improvements—showing he bridges enterprise IT and developer-focused engineering. With an MBA and a background in both technical analysis and dealer services, he brings a pragmatic blend of business insight and technical depth to large-scale infrastructure challenges. Based in Old Toronto, he is known for quietly improving workflows through automation and subtle UI/backend fixes that benefit both users and operations.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at York University
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
apidoc10
cancer-genomics10
java10
javas10
api10
spring-boot10
react10
caching9
database-design8
mobx8
typescript7
typescript-types7
typescripts7
science6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cBioPortal/cbioportal-frontend
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
React Frontend of cBioPortal :tada:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 44 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jag primarily contributed to the React frontend of the cBioPortal project. Their work included modifying UI elements, updating components, and adding data download functionality. Specifically, they focused on enhancing the Cancer Summary Chart, adding options for data downloads, and fixing display issues. The user also addressed issues related to study name display and made some changes to the underlying API client.
reactcbioportalreact-frontendmobxfrontend
cBioPortal/cbioportal
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 20 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jag primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the cBioPortal project. Their work focused on modifying API endpoints for internal use, suggesting involvement in access control and API design. The user made changes to controllers, particularly those dealing with clinical attributes and mutations, and optimized caching of samples. They also refactored code and addressed database schema changes.
precision-medicinesciencecbioportalgenomicscancer
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