Mauricio Carneiro
Engineering Lead Local Actions at Google
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMauricio Carneiro is an engineering leader with 14 years of experience bridging computational biology and production-scale software, currently leading Local Actions engineering at Google from his base in Los Altos. He pairs deep domain expertise—PhD-level computational biology and MS in cellular & molecular biology—with a long history of building high-performance, hardware-accelerated tools at institutions like the Broad Institute and Verily. Mauricio has led multidisciplinary teams and major collaborations with industry (Intel, NVidia, IBM, Cray) to deliver core libraries and parallel frameworks for genomics, and now operates at the frontier of generative AI within Google’s product ecosystem. Early in his career he shipped pioneering games and graphics tooling, reflecting a blend of systems-level engineering, algorithmic thinking, and product-oriented design. Notably, he has a track record of turning complex scientific workflows into robust, production-ready software and community-facing tools such as GATK components and outreach programs.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computational Biology, Ph.D., Computational Biology at Harvard UniversityPontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroMS, Cellular and Molecular Biology, MS, Cellular and Molecular Biology at FIOCRUZ
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (27)
bam10
htslib10
bioinformatics10
data-formats9
dm9
sam9
sequencing9
gatk9
genomics9
fasta9
c-library8
throughput8
accelerator7
viewer7
cpp7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MauricioCarneiro/PairHMM
Aug 2012 - Jan 2017
Contributions:72 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 6 months
gpuoptimization
broadinstitute/gamgee
Mar 2014 - Nov 2014
A C++14 library for NGS data formats
Contributions:304 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 7 months
cppcmakedata-formatsc-plus-plusngs
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