Olaitan Awe
Research Computing Consultant at Harvard University
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOlaitan Awe is a research computing consultant and genomic data analyst with eight years of hands-on experience applying bioinformatics, data science, and system administration to health and biotech problems. With a PhD in Bioinformatics and advanced training in project management and leadership from the University of Washington, she bridges rigorous computational methods and practical biomedical workflows. She has deep expertise in NGS/RNA‑Seq analysis, virus discovery, and cancer genomics, and routinely scales pipelines on HPC clusters and AWS. Comfortable working independently or in interdisciplinary teams, she thrives in fast-paced, entrepreneurial research environments. Beyond analysis, she brings a computer science and engineering background that enables her to optimize reproducible pipelines and infrastructure for sustained research impact. Based in the United States and currently consulting at Harvard, she pairs academic rigor with production-minded engineering to turn complex genomic data into actionable insights.
8 years of coding experience
Higher National Diploma, Project Management in Global Health, Higher National Diploma, Project Management in Global Health at University of WashingtonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at University of Ibadan
Github Skills (28)
gene-expression9
clinical-trials8
bioinformatics7
seq7
shotgun7
discovery7
rna-seq6
cancer-genomics6
version-control5
genomes5
machine-learning5
libgit25
single-cell-genomics4
mining4
data-science4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NCBI-Hackathons/Salphagome
Apr 2018 - May 2021
Novel Discovery of Phages from Salmonella Sequences
Contributions:97 commits, 93 pushes in 3 years
bioinformaticssalmonellaphagesdiscovery
laitanawe/midat
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:196 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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