Kevin Chau
Senior Bioinformatics Engineer
Milpitas, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Chau is a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling clinical-grade genomics pipelines in CAP/CLIA environments. He specializes in containerized, cloud-native workflow engineering (Nextflow, CWL, WDL) and has delivered high-throughput solutions for NGS and whole-genome sequencing using AWS Batch, EKS, and on-prem HPC. Kevin has hands-on expertise integrating bioinformatics systems with LIMS and clinical reporting, implementing gRPC/Protobuf APIs and Django/Postgres-backed variant databases to support productionized variant annotation and import. He has improved assay validation, throughput, and reproducibility across organizations such as Color and Rady Children’s Institute, and brings practical knowledge of DRAGEN, SLURM/Cromwell, and CI-driven deployment practices. Beyond engineering, he applies statistical rigor from his research background in neurodevelopmental genomics, enabling thoughtful algorithm optimizations and validation in clinical contexts.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Milpitas High SchoolUniversity of California, San Diego
English, Vietnamese, Spanish
Github Skills (50)
genome10
fastq10
sequencing10
sequence10
assembly9
bioinformatics9
probabilistic-graphical-models9
fasta9
random-access8
bcftools8
python8
pysam8
htslib8
java8
tabix8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
IakouchevaLab/Isoform_BrainSpan
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
kkchau/.dotfiles
May 2017 - Mar 2026
Contributions:3 PRs, 164 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years 11 months
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