Piyush Acharya
Payload Software Engineer (HS-2) at Husky Satellite Lab
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPiyush Acharya is a software engineer and founder with four years of experience building privacy-first bioinformatics tools and leading technical teams. As founder of DNAnalyzer he scaled an on-device DNA analysis platform to 4,300+ users across 18 countries, earned 175 GitHub stars, 47 contributors, a provisional patent, and spoke at Git Merge 2025. He balances hands-on engineering (payload software for Husky Satellite Lab) with teaching and research roles at MIT Media Lab and the University of Victoria, and has startup training from Y Combinator. Piyush also brings policy experience from serving as President of the Youth Advisory Council for Rep. Adam Smith, where his memos secured three House cosponsorships. Active in community building, he organized HackPNW and led Interlake Programming Club, demonstrating a knack for scaling events and developer communities. Based in Bellevue and studying CS & Applied Math at UC Berkeley, he blends experimentation at the intersection of biology, aerospace, and privacy-aware software.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of WashingtonInternational Baccalaureate Diploma (awarded), International Baccalaureate Diploma (awarded) at Interlake Senior High School
English, Spanish, Odia, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
hugo10
github10
spatial-transcriptomics10
mathematical10
transcriptomics10
manim10
serverless10
genomics10
computational-biology10
encapsulation10
protein-sequences10
animation10
github-bot10
artificial-intelligence10
data-science10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
VerisimilitudeX/GradeView
Mar 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:4 reviews, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 5 months
VerisimilitudeX/DNAnalyzer
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Democratizing ML-powered DNA analysis through efficient on-device computation and interpretive tools.
Contributions:8 releases, 190 reviews, 784 commits in 5 months
dna-sequencingmetagenomicsdata-sciencednaaccessible
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