Kokulapalan Wimalanathan
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist And Team Lead
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolKokulapalan Wimalanathan is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist and team lead based in Cambridge, MA, with 11 years of experience building scalable genomics and transcriptomics pipelines across academia and industry. He blends hands-on wet-lab protocol development for sequencing with dry-lab expertise in statistics, HPC/cloud deployments, and web dashboards to turn complex NGS data into actionable insights for drug and crop RNA design. He has led teams to deploy secure cyberinfrastructure, implemented an in-house siRNA design algorithm, and scaled cloud-native RNA design workflows that informed both product development and mechanism-of-action studies. His work on large-scale plant annotation tools (GOMAP) and primer-design web services demonstrates a knack for making reproducible, containerized pipelines that accelerate collaborators’ research. Colleagues describe him as inquisitive and independent, with a creative, collaborative style that pairs deep ontology and protein-function knowledge with practical engineering.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Iowa State UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Bioinformatics, Second Lower, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bioinformatics, Second Lower at University of ColomboMaster of Science (MS), Botany/Plant Biology, Master of Science (MS), Botany/Plant Biology at Miami University
Tamil, Sinhalese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (66)
go-map10
singularity10
genome-annotation9
genomics8
bioinformatics8
scientific-publications7
markdown7
zenodo7
biology7
converter7
pandoc7
jbrowse7
haskell6
commonmark6
ontology6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Dill-PICL/maize-GAMER
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
Dill-PICL/GOMAP-base
Jun 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 147 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 3 months
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