João Almeida
Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Healthcare at Palantir Technologies
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoão Almeida is a Forward Deployed Software Engineer focused on healthcare, bringing a decade of experience building bioinformatics software that turns whole-genome data into actionable insights for clinicians. He combines hands-on software engineering with a strong academic foundation in clinical informatics and bioinformatics, and has driven genome interpretation pipelines for the NHS Genomic Medicine Service and the 100,000 Genomes Project. At Palantir and Genomics England he has blended operational rigor with pipeline development to improve diagnosis and treatment for rare disease and cancer. Trained as a pharmacist and fluent in data science and machine learning, he uniquely bridges clinical domain knowledge, interoperability, and production ML-enabled systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado em Engenharia, Biomedical Engineering - Master in Clinical Informatics and Bioinformatics, Mestrado em Engenharia, Biomedical Engineering - Master in Clinical Informatics and Bioinformatics at Universidade de Coimbra
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (89)
python10
scikit10
statistics10
chemistry10
cheminformatics10
jupyter10
data-science10
java10
data-analysis10
machine-learning10
jupyterlab10
mhealth10
scikit-learn10
java-api10
hapi9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
joofio/awesome-academic-resources
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes in 19 days
joofio/online-cv
Aug 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:147 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
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