Kishori Konwar
Co-Founder Chief Scientific Officer at Optimum
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolKishori Konwar is a Co-Founder and CTO based in Cambridge, MA, with seven years of focused experience in machine learning, AI, and data science built on deep foundations in mathematics, statistics, algorithms, and distributed systems. She has bridged cutting‑edge research and production systems across roles at Meta, the Broad Institute, MIT CSAIL, and the MIT RLE, designing cloud-native genomic pipelines and storage-optimized, erasure‑coded distributed systems. Earlier experience in quantitative finance at Goldman Sachs and KPMG adds rigorous risk‑aware engineering and numerical modeling to her toolkit. As a researcher-turned-builder, she blends academic contributions (multiple distributed storage projects and patents) with hands-on software development and startup leadership. Her GitHub repositories showcase reproducible ML and systems work, reflecting a propensity to move complex algorithms from prototype to operational code.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurPhD, MS Distributed Computing, Mathematics, Statistics and Quantitative Finance, PhD, MS Distributed Computing, Mathematics, Statistics and Quantitative Finance at University of ConnecticutMTech Computer Science, MTech Computer Science at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Github Skills (20)
reproducible-science10
pipeline10
sequencing10
wdl10
large-scale9
genome9
data-processing9
bioinformatics9
warp9
command-line-tool9
genomics8
scale8
java8
gatk7
science6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kishorikonwar/fastqpreprocessing
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:7 releases, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
kishori82/JavaISal
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:9 commits in 2 days
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