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.
3 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 (6)
bioinformatics10
portal10
datasets10
genomics8
census8
reflect3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chanzuckerberg/cellxgene-ontology-guide
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
Notebook guide: https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/cellxgene-ontology-guide/blob/main/api/python/notebooks/Python%20API.ipynb
Contributions:114 reviews, 66 PRs, 117 pushes in 11 months
chanzuckerberg/single-cell-curation
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Code and documentation for the curation of cellxgene datasets
Contributions:8 releases, 428 reviews, 41 commits in 5 months
datasetsbioinformaticscuration
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