Rani Powers
Founder & CEO at Pluto Bio
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRani Powers is a computational biologist-turned-founder and CEO with a decade of experience building software that turns complex multi-omics data into actionable insights. As founder of Pluto Bio and a senior staff scientist at the Wyss Institute, she blends hands-on engineering, product leadership, and translational science to deliver agentic analysis and visualization tools for biology teams. Her product leadership at Helix and HumanCode produced FDA-cleared and patented genomic platforms, demonstrating an ability to move innovations from research to regulated clinical and consumer products. Based in Boston, she pairs a PhD in Computational Bioscience with practical experience in ML-backed genetic trait prediction and visualization, making her equally fluent in experiments, data, and product strategy. Notably, she has repeatedly translated cutting-edge lab work into production software that accelerates scientific decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computational Bioscience, Ph.D., Computational Bioscience at University of Colorado AnschutzB.A., Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology, B.A., Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (21)
reticulate10
rshiny10
r-package8
python7
shiny6
r6
heatmap3
database3
biology3
machine-learning3
javascript2
visualization2
django2
jupyter-notebook2
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pluto-biosciences/pluto-sdk-R
Nov 2021 - May 2025
R package for interacting with the Pluto API
Contributions:7 reviews, 4 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 years 6 months
rr-package
CostelloLab/Trisomy21_KYN_metabolomics
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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