NaliniĀ Ganapati
Principal Software Engineer at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNalini Ganapati is a Principal Software Engineer based in Portland with over two decades of professional experience and eight years focused on modern software and genomics tooling. She currently leads engineering efforts at the Broad Institute after founding and running Omics Data Automation (datma) where she combined domain expertise in genomics with hands-on systems design. Nalini is an active contributor to the high-profile GATK repository, driving GenomicsDB refactoring, Protobuf vid mapping updates, and hard-to-find bug fixes that improve large-scale variant processing. Her background spans security and enterprise software at Symantec and IBM, giving her a rare blend of rigorous engineering discipline and applied bioinformatics. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic technical leader who translates complex genomic data requirements into reliable, production-ready infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Oregon Health & Science University
Github Skills (13)
bioinformatics10
javas10
gatk10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
java10
genomes9
variants9
ng9
genome9
spark8
excel-dna8
sequencing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
broadinstitute/gatk
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
Official code repository for GATK versions 4 and up
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 61 commits, 30 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nalini primarily contributed to the refactoring and migration of code related to GenomicsDB, a data storage system for genomics applications within the GATK framework. Their work involved updating code to reference the correct libraries and perform updates to the Protobuf vid mapping. They also focused on incorporating changes from new versions of GenomicsDB and fixing bugs related to max alternate alleles.
genomesciencednaspark-mlngs
GenomicsDB/GenomicsDB
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
High performance data storage for importing, querying and transforming variants.
Contributions:17 releases, 166 reviews, 325 commits in 4 years 5 months
mpigenomics-datadata-storagegatk4storage
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