Nagarajan Paramasivam
Workflow Development Lead at National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolNagarajan Paramasivam is a Workflow Development Lead and computational cancer genomics specialist with over a decade of experience building and validating production-grade NGS analysis pipelines for precision oncology. Based in Heidelberg, he leads interdisciplinary teams to design, lift over and clinically validate cancer and germline workflows (including the GRCh38 migration), and drives quality-control and immune deconvolution, HLA-typing and driver-gene analyses. His background spans academia and translational research—from PhD work on bacterial vaccine targets to postdoctoral germline diagnostics—giving him a rare blend of deep biological insight and practical workflow engineering. Known for turning complex bioinformatic methods into auditable, computerized systems for clinical use, he combines hands-on development with regulatory-minded validation across the NCT/DKFZ ecosystem.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.sc Bioinformatics, M.sc Bioinformatics at Bharathiar UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Zoology (spl. Biotechnology), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Zoology (spl. Biotechnology) at The American college, MaduraiDoctor of Science (Dr. rer. nat.) Life Sciences, Doctor of Science (Dr. rer. nat.) Life Sciences at Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology & University of Tübingen
English, Tamil, perl, r, python
Github Skills (46)
genome10
cancer-genomics10
genetic10
structural-variation10
caller10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
platypus10
fastq-files9
variants9
seq9
depth9
science9
illumina9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NagaComBio/learning_ml_statistics
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
NagaComBio/TiNDA
Feb 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 12 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 11 months
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