Kishori Konwar
Co-Founder CTO 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.
7 years of coding experience
14 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 (31)
reproducible-science10
bam10
pipeline10
sequencing10
warp10
wdl10
fasta10
hts9
genome9
fastq9
bioinformatics9
throughput9
sequence9
genomics9
java-api9
Programming languages (5)
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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