Nayib Gloria
Senior Software Engineer at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNayib Gloria is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with four years of professional experience building backend systems for high-profile organizations like the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and The New York Times. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Duke and combines strong Java, Python, R, and SQL skills with experience in C/C++, Node.js, and Android development. At CZI he contributes to CELLxGENE, an open-source platform for sharing and visualizing single-cell transcriptomics data, blending software engineering with domain-facing scientific tooling. Past roles include low-latency, event-driven backend work for Goldman Sachs and product-focused engineering at The New York Times, showing adaptability across finance, media, and research. Early research internships and a minor in Biology give him cross-disciplinary insight into bioinformatics and experimental data workflows. He is comfortable translating analyst and researcher needs into production services, often serving as the bridge between technical teams and domain stakeholders.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Computer Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Duke University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
bioinformatics10
portal10
datasets10
genomics8
ontology8
census7
python6
mass-spectrometry5
data-acquisition4
reflect3
plotly-dash3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chanzuckerberg/single-cell-curation
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Code and documentation for the curation of cellxgene datasets
Contributions:9 releases, 466 reviews, 41 commits in 5 months
datasetsbioinformaticscuration
chanzuckerberg/cellxgene-ontology-guide
Feb 2024 - May 2026
Notebook guide: https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/cellxgene-ontology-guide/blob/main/api/python/notebooks/Python%20API.ipynb
Contributions:115 reviews, 66 PRs, 123 pushes in 2 years 3 months
python
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