Jaynish Shah
Bioinformatician
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJaynish Shah is a bioinformatician with 8 years of experience bridging molecular biology and computational analysis, currently supporting cancer research at the Children's Cancer Institute. He holds a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney and has held senior roles at Illumina and Alfred Health, bringing both industry and translational research perspectives. His work spans high-throughput sequencing, long non-coding RNA biology, and data-driven discovery from postdoc projects in the US to clinical genomics in Australia. Comfortable with both wet-lab concepts and scalable bioinformatics, he combines rigorous academic output (Google Scholar profile) with practical tool development showcased on GitHub. Notably, he has moved between academia and industry roles, which gives him a pragmatic view of deploying analytic methods into clinical and product settings.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyBachelor of Technology - BTech, Biotechnology, Honours I, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Biotechnology, Honours I at University of Auckland
English, Gujarati, Hindi
Github Skills (19)
estimate6
normal4
machine-learning4
bioinformatics4
sequencing4
discovery3
evolution3
statistical-genetics3
deconvolution3
java2
probabilistic2
genetic1
nextflow1
scaling1
monitoring1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jsha129/KBB_Cars
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:60 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
jsha129/irlib
Dec 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:23 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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