Nishant Jha
Founder at Nitro Bio
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNishant Jha is a founder and software designer with 9 years of experience building elegant, high-performance applications for biotech and research organizations. He has partnered with leading institutions such as Calico, the Broad Institute, Ginkgo, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, translating complex biological workflows into beautiful, usable software for bench and computational scientists. Based in Pasadena, he runs Nitro Bio, consults as a design engineer at Tatta Bio, and was selected for GitHub’s inaugural Accelerator fellowship, highlighting his blend of product design and open-source savvy. With a Master’s in Computer Science from UVA and a Nature Genetics publication, he pairs deep domain familiarity with front-end craftsmanship to accelerate scientific discovery in practical, user-centered ways.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at University of Virginia
English
Github Skills (36)
biology10
synthetic-biology10
viewer10
vector10
sequence10
next-generation-sequencing9
sequencing9
infectious-diseases9
computational-biology9
genomics8
javascript8
bioinformatics8
science7
react7
bioconda6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ninjha01/mast
May 2019 - Apr 2021
This is the repository for AllergenGuru, a scientific allergen resource from Indoor Biotechnologies
Contributions:16 PRs, 151 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 11 months
bioinformaticsindoorallergenscientific
nitro-bio/sequence-viewers
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:17 reviews, 109 commits, 77 PRs in 5 months
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