Javier Oliete
Associate Director - Bioinformatics
Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolJavier Oliete is an Associate Director of Bioinformatics with 11 years of industry experience and 15+ years at the intersection of genomics, AI, and health data science, currently leading national-scale genomics and AI integration projects in the UAE. He has hands-on experience operationalizing GPU-accelerated long-read pipelines that supported sequencing of 700,000+ genomes and has launched genomics pilots across premarital screening, pharmacogenomics and population health. Javier blends deep statistical and research roots (PhD in Animal Genetics) with product and commercial acumen—delivering ML-driven biomarker discovery, pathogen surveillance used in public health policy, and scientific due diligence for enterprise AI partnerships. He scales teams and engineering practices, having grown bioinformatics groups and implemented agile, reproducible pipelines across research, clinical and regulatory contexts. Known for making complex genomics workflows production-ready, he also brings a curiosity for everyday statistics and data-driven storytelling reflected in his practical approach to applied bioinformatics.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Animal Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Animal Genetics at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaMaster, Biomedical Research, Master, Biomedical Research at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
English, Spanish, Catalan
Github Skills (31)
rna-seq9
gene-expression8
predict8
reproducible-research7
bioinformatics7
nextflow7
kallisto7
slurm6
reproducible-science6
singularity6
pipeline5
aws5
dsl5
fastq-files5
groovy5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
4DGenome/parallel_sequencing_lives
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
4DGenome/conseq
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:59 commits, 44 pushes in 10 days
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