Omar Valenzuela
Senior Software Engineer at Biohub
Indio, California, United States
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Top SchoolOmar Valenzuela is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building scalable ML and data systems that turn complex biological sequencing into actionable insights. At Biohub (formerly Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) he helped develop CZ ID, an open-source, global pathogen-detection platform used in pandemic response and outbreak monitoring, and now designs large-scale data management and inference pipelines for transcriptomic ML models. He’s built embedding pipelines, RAG applications, ML agents, and benchmarking libraries that bridge research and production, with a strong focus on inference at scale. A former NCAA Division I athlete and CodePath instructor, he combines disciplined teamwork and mentorship with deep technical craft. Based in Indio, CA, Omar is energized by collaborations at the intersection of AI and biology and by turning hypothesis-free scientific data into tools researchers can trust.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (90)
genomics10
computational-biology10
next-generation-sequencing10
science10
biology10
infectious-diseases10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
monitoring9
pipeline9
bioconda9
logentries9
loggly9
data-visualization8
django8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chanzuckerberg/czid-amr-heatmap
Mar 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 1 branch in 7 months
chanzuckerberg/czid-web
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Infectious Disease Sequencing Platform
Contributions:1 review, 385 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years 8 months
sciencepipelineinfectious-diseasebiocondabiology
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