Owais Shahzada
Senior Consultant at Inner Circle
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolOwais Shahzada is a Senior Consultant and bioinformatics engineer with 7 years of experience applying cloud-native data engineering to genomic research and healthcare. He has built scalable ETL pipelines on Google Cloud and BigQuery for large VCF datasets, migrated WHO TP53 resources to ISB-CGC, and optimized genomic reporting with tools like Dask. Comfortable bridging research and engineering, he mentors teammates, improves documentation, and helps researchers adopt Google Cloud for controlled-access genomic data. Based in Virginia, he blends hands-on Python and big data expertise with domain knowledge in cancer biology, and recently launched a consultancy, Inner Circle, while consulting at Accenture Federal Services. An approachable problem-solver, he pairs production-grade backend work with a researcher’s attention to data provenance and reproducibility.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science - BS Bioinformatics at Virginia Commonwealth University
Bengali, English, Urdu, Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
read-the-docs9
etl4
database1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oshahzada98/Bioinformatics-Projects
Dec 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
isb-cgc/VariantData2BigQuery
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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