Kevin Palis
Principal Software Engineer (Black Canyon Consulting) at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Palis is a Principal Software Engineer and technical lead with a deep track record modernizing large-scale bioinformatics and genomic data systems across academia and research institutes. He builds and optimizes cloud-native pipelines and data architectures—most recently driving SRA modernization at NCBI after shaping scalable WDL pipelines at the Broad Institute and leading genomic data platforms for international breeding programs. Comfortable across DevOps, backend systems, and CI/CD, he has hands-on experience deploying complex stacks to AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments while ensuring reproducible, FAIR-aligned scientific workflows. His career blends enterprise software rigor (Oracle, Continental) with impactful public-sector science, enabling researchers worldwide to access and analyze high-throughput sequencing and genotype data. Based in Ithaca, NY, he pairs engineering leadership with creative pursuits—portrait photography and casual gaming—bringing a curious, user-centered perspective to scientific infrastructure.
7 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of the Philippines
English, Filipino
Github Skills (33)
spark-ml10
genome10
reproducible-science10
gatk10
pipeline10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
wdl10
science10
spark9
terra9
warp9
buffering8
apache-spark8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
broadinstitute/warp-tools
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
This repository contains all containers that WARP uses.
Contributions:55 reviews, 25 commits, 52 PRs in 5 months
containerswarpdocker
broadinstitute/smartseq2-single-nucleus-multisample
Aug 2023 - Jan 2024
The Smart-seq2 Single Nucleus Multi-Sample (Multi-snSS2) pipeline was developed in collaboration with the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) to process single-nucleus RNAseq (snRNAseq) data generated by Smart-seq2 assays.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 66 pushes in 5 months
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