Robert Aboukhalil
Co-founder at OMGenomics Labs
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolRobert Aboukhalil is a founder and bioinformatics software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms for genomics analysis and visualization. He’s led engineering teams and shipped production tools at organizations like Invitae and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, where his work sped front-end rendering 10x and prevented terabytes of invalid uploads. Comfortable across cloud architecture, data pipelines, and developer tooling, he has repeatedly cut runtime and cost (6x runtime improvement, 30x cost/runtime reduction in past roles) while improving user experience. Now leading OMGenomics Labs from Copenhagen, he focuses on making genomics software a joy to use, combining a PhD in bioinformatics with hands-on product and infrastructure craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Biological Sciences (Bioinformatics), PhD Biological Sciences (Bioinformatics) at Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryB. Eng. Computer Engineering, B. Eng. Computer Engineering at McGill University
English, French
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Github Skills (87)
spatial-transcriptomics10
dotplot10
grep10
sed10
gene-expression10
genomics10
computational-biology10
bedtools10
javascript10
next-generation-sequencing10
webapp10
rna-seq10
emscripten10
webassembly10
science10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
robertaboukhalil/fastq.bio
Aug 2017 - Aug 2022
An interactive web tool for quality control of DNA sequencing data
Contributions:2 releases, 6 reviews, 92 commits in 5 years
sequencingbioinformaticsgenomicsfastqcwebassembly
robertaboukhalil/alignment-sandbox
May 2020 - Aug 2024
Tool for exploring sequence alignment algorithms
Contributions:3 reviews, 8 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 4 months
sequence-alignmentalignmentbioinformaticsgenomicsneedleman-wunsch
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