Manishย Kumar
Bioinformatics Programmer Research Associate
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolManish Kumar is a senior bioinformatics software engineer and computational scientist with ~18 years of programming experience and a decade of focused industry/academic work delivering production-ready, reproducible multi-omics pipelines. He designs and deploys end-to-end workflows for single-cell RNA-seq, exome variant analysis, and proteomics using Python, R, Nextflow/Cromwell, Docker, and CI/CD, and has integrated pipelines with clinical LIMS and cloud platforms for translational projects. His work spans high-performance sequence aligners and national genome browsers to clinical-grade variant prioritization using ML, SKAT-O, and burden testing, contributing to publications and translational insight. Based in Kansas City, he pairs deep bioinformatics domain knowledge with full-stack engineering skills (C++, Perl, JavaScript, SQL) and a recent MS in Data Science, making him adept at turning complex biological questions into auditable, scalable analytics. An oft-overlooked strength is his track record of shipping both research notebooks for rapid discovery and hardened CI/CD pipelines for clinical reproducibility.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of DelhiMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at Eastern UniversityM.Sc, Bioinformatics, M.Sc, Bioinformatics at Jamia Millia Islamia
Github Skills (29)
bioinformatics9
genome-annotation9
wdl8
genomics8
specification8
biology8
reproducible-science8
jbrowse7
workflow-description-language7
javascript4
visualization4
html4
js-charts3
datasets3
simulator2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
man4ish/Canceromics
Dec 2016 - Oct 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches, 2 issues in 9 years
kbasecollaborations/MotifFinderalgoMFMD
Jun 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:28 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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