Robert Aboukhalil
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 (111)
seq10
grep10
sed10
gene-expression10
command-line-tool10
genomics10
assemblyscript10
computational-biology10
bedtools10
javascript10
dimensionality-reduction10
next-generation-sequencing10
ecosystem10
jsonpath10
on-the-fly10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
robertaboukhalil/tsne-sandbox
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
Interactive, WebAssembly-powered tSNE playground
Contributions:3 reviews, 44 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 2 months
webassemblyclusteringtypescriptwasmtsne
sandbox-bio/sandbox.bio
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Interactive bioinformatics tutorials
Contributions:15 reviews, 32 PRs, 256 pushes in 1 year 10 months
bioinformatics
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