Mitja Kurki
Co-Founder, Scientific Advisor at Switchpoint Bio
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMitja Kurki is a computational genomics leader and co-founder with 11+ years of experience building large-scale genetic analysis pipelines and cloud-native infrastructure. Based in Boston, he architects and mentors multidisciplinary teams as Senior Group Leader at the Broad Institute and leads the FinnGen Core Analysis Team, translating biobank-scale discoveries into actionable insights. He brings deep hands-on expertise in scalable genomics tooling—contributing backend improvements to the widely used Hail project—and a track record of shipping robust statistical utilities and workflow features. Mitja combines academic rigor (PhD in Molecular Medicine/Bioinformatics) with entrepreneurial product sensibility from founding Switchpoint Bio. Known for bridging research and production, he optimizes both algorithms and engineering practices to make population-scale genomics tractable. An unusual strength is his ability to unify diverse computational backgrounds into synchronized teams that deliver reproducible, cloud-first genomic analyses.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Medicine / Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Molecular Medicine / Bioinformatics at University of Eastern FinlandNetwork application specialist, Network applications, Enterpreneurship, Network application specialist, Network applications, Enterpreneurship at KAKK
Github Skills (13)
hail10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
python10
scala10
statistic9
statistics9
datastructures-algorithms8
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
gcp5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hail-is/hail
Sep 2016 - Nov 2021
Cloud-native genomic dataframes and batch computing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mitja made several contributions focused on enhancing the functionality and features of the Hail library. They added new functionalities such as degrees of freedom versions for statistical calculations, and a second version of the `split` function. They also implemented utilities such as a chisquare approximation helper for statistical testing. Furthermore, they fixed a bug in the error handling of the program, and enabled the inclusion of a region flag in the submit process.
scalabledata-analysispythongeneticshail
FINNGEN/betamatch-ext-data
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
external data for mathing betas
Contributions:7 reviews, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 2 months
mathaplmathematicawolfram-languagesympy
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