Kumar Thurimella
Investment Fellow at Divergence Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKumar Thurimella is an interdisciplinary investment fellow and physician-scientist with 11 years of experience bridging software engineering, computational biology, and clinical medicine. He trained in applied mathematics and computational biology (BS, MPhil) and holds an MD and a PhD in biotechnology/applied statistics from Cambridge and University of Colorado, combining deep quantitative skills with translational research at labs including Xavier Lab, Broad Institute, and Mass General. Prior to medicine and research he shipped production software at Uber and ThoughtWorks, giving him rare fluency in scalable engineering and data-driven product development. Now based in Palo Alto, he evaluates early-stage biotech and health technology opportunities, informed by hands-on lab experience in microbiome and antibiotic-resistance research and a background in machine learning for biological data. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex computational insights into clinically relevant investment theses and technical roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biotechnology | Applied Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biotechnology | Applied Statistics at University of CambridgeDoctor of Medicine - MD, Doctor of Medicine - MD at University of Colorado AnschutzBachelor of Science (BS), Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Applied Mathematics at University of Colorado BoulderHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cherry Creek High School
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Github Skills (59)
markdown10
microbiome10
github-pages10
gitpod10
jekyll10
bioinformatics10
package-management9
conda9
box-sdk9
sparse8
bioconda8
metagenomics8
blast8
donation8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lozuponelab/KEGG_parser
Jan 2019 - Mar 2023
KEGG Parsers, extracted and refactored
Contributions:2 reviews, 12 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 years 1 month
parsersparsingparser-generatorkeggparser
lozuponelab/q2-SCNIC
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
A QIIME2 plugin for running SCNIC
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
qiime2plugin
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