Rajat Roy
Sr Staff Bioinformatics Scientist
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRajat Roy is a senior staff bioinformatics scientist with nearly a decade of experience building clinical-grade, high-performance variant annotation tools at Illumina. He specializes in sequence analysis algorithms and has repeatedly translated them into scalable, serverless services and REST APIs on AWS with zero-downtime deployment pipelines. A strong advocate of software engineering best practices, he brings expertise in .NET, unit testing, and automated scalability and endurance testing for large genomic datasets. His work includes creating supplementary annotation capabilities that integrate dbSNP, 1000Genomes, ExAC, COSMIC, and ClinVar to enhance clinical reporting. Based in San Diego, he combines PhD-level research training from Rutgers with practical production engineering, uniquely bridging academic rigor and enterprise-grade delivery. Beyond core development, he focuses on automating baseline generation and maintenance for variant annotation to streamline long-term clinical operations.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Rutgers University
English, Bangla
Github Skills (20)
annotator10
nimble10
aws5
aws-lambda5
lambda-functions4
ontologies4
lambda4
csharp4
serverless4
netcore4
geneontology3
owl3
dotnet3
json3
json-schema3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rajatshuvro/OLA
Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
Onkur Library Automation Tool
Contributions:4 PRs, 213 pushes, 38 branches in 1 year 4 months
toolkitautomationlibrary-automation
rajatshuvro/nola
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
New Onkur Library Application
Contributions:4 PRs, 108 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 10 months
application-library
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