Lavanya Rishishwar
Senior Technical Manager at Georgia Institute of Technology
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLavanya Rishishwar is a Senior Technical Manager and bioinformatics scientist with nearly a decade of experience leading R&D across government, academia, and industry. She combines deep computational genomics expertise with hands-on algorithm and software development to deliver diagnostic-grade solutions and efficient data pipelines for cancer and microbial genomics. As a leader she manages small teams, teaches graduate courses at Georgia Tech, and translates complex analyses into clear visual narratives and practical training curricula. She founded and scaled an applied bioinformatics startup that generated multi-million dollar revenue, and continues to publish actively with a public scholar profile. Based in Ann Arbor, she bridges academic rigor and product-focused engineering to move bioinformatics methods from research into production.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Bioinformatics at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT)Master of Science (MS), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MS), Bioinformatics at Georgia Institute of Technology
Hindi, English
Github Skills (12)
mer8
sequence7
bioinformatics7
genomics6
cancer-genomics6
visualization4
visualize4
phylogeny3
sarif3
nextflow3
pipeline3
conda2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lavanyarishishwar/parallelAni
Mar 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 6 years 6 months
lavanyarishishwar/taxadiva
Jul 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
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