Nikhil Haas
Co-Founder at BioLM.ai
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Haas is a Co-Founder and bio-AI entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building production-grade software and ML systems at the intersection of commercial biotechnology and data science. He led bioinformatics and automation teams at Twist Bioscience and now runs BioLM.ai, delivering GPU-backed protein, DNA, and RNA model APIs that cut engineering and ops overhead while keeping computational costs low. His background spans full-stack engineering, scalable cloud infrastructure, and niche bioinformatics algorithms—from codon optimization and NGS QC pipelines to probabilistic splice-site detection and large-scale DNA biosecurity screening. He’s taught graduate-level health informatics, built research-grade analytics platforms at Stanford Med, and co-founded earlier startups, showing a consistent pattern of turning domain research into reliable, productionized services. Based in Oakland, CA, he pairs deep biotech domain knowledge with pragmatic software engineering and a knack for automating previously manual lab and design workflows.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Health Informatics (Data Analysis Track), Master of Science (M.S.) Health Informatics (Data Analysis Track) at University of San FranciscoBachelor's Degree Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Biomedical Engineering at Boston University
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Github Skills (99)
forge10
marker10
icu10
intellij-plugin9
database9
duplication9
shiny-server9
bioinformatics9
htmlwidgets8
shiny8
statistics8
r8
computational-biology8
intellij8
intellij-platform8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nsh87/shinyVM
Oct 2014 - Jan 2021
Contributions:55 commits, 21 pushes, 13 comments in 6 years 4 months
shinyrstatsshiny-server
nsh87/mimic-iii-vm
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 6 months
mimic-iiiiiipostgresqlmimicubuntu
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