Kapeel Chougule
Computational Science Developer II
Town of Huntington, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKapeel Chougule is a Computational Science Developer II with a decade of experience applying computational biology and bioinformatics to plant genome research, currently based at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He has supported high-quality reference genome assemblies and annotations for key crops including rice, maize, grape, and sorghum, and is skilled at scaling genomic workflows across diverse compute platforms. Proficient in containerized deployment with Docker and Singularity, he designs reproducible pipelines that handle large-scale sequencing data. A resourceful, team-oriented communicator with a Master's in Bioinformatics, he pairs deep domain knowledge with systems-level engineering—bringing production-grade practices from his prior systems programming work at the Arizona Genomics Institute. Notably, his work bridges hands-on genome curation and infrastructure automation, enabling both accurate annotations and efficient compute operations.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Biotechnology, Bachelor, Biotechnology at PES Institute of TechnologyMasters, Bioinformatics, Masters, Bioinformatics at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Github Skills (54)
genome-assembly10
nam10
bioinformatics-analysis9
genomes9
docker-build9
seq9
genome9
genomics9
interpretation8
rna-seq8
differential-expression8
transcript8
bioinformatics8
variants8
hierarchical8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Kapeel/iPlant_workshop
Sep 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 2 months
Kapeel/HISAT2
Jul 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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