Shashi Dhar
Chief Technology Officer at PromptBio
Greater Houston United States
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Top SchoolShashi Dhar is a technology leader and CTO with a cross-disciplinary background spanning corporate R&D, academic research, and biotech startups, bringing roughly seven years of documented industry experience plus a long research track record. He has led and built multi-location engineering teams to deliver GenAI-driven, large-scale, cost-efficient platforms for genomic data processing and storage, including co-founding and scaling a PaaS spun out of GeneGenieDx into PromptBio. His hands-on work bridges bioinformatics, cloud infrastructure, and software engineering—contributing to production pipelines for high-impact diagnostics like Galleri and systems that process petabytes of genomic data. Trained as a computer scientist with a PhD from KU Leuven and executive engineering leadership training at UC Berkeley, he combines formal-methods expertise from safety-critical systems with practical compiler and algorithm design for embedded and high-throughput genomics. Notably, he moves fluidly between bench research and platform engineering, applying rigorous academic techniques to operationalize scalable, secure AI-driven diagnostic software.
7 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Leadership Professional Program, Engineering Leadership Professional Program at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at KU LeuvenIndian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Bachelor of Engineering - BEng Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BEng Computer Science at University of Mysore
Github Skills (24)
unsafe10
filesystem9
external9
artifacts8
bam7
fasta6
golang6
delta5
bioinformatics5
genomics5
aws5
fastq5
reproducible-science4
java4
data-processing3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
grailbio/base
Nov 2018 - Feb 2021
A collection of Go utility packages used by GRAIL's tools
Contributions:4 commits in 2 years 3 months
golangunsafesyncfilesystemartifacts
grailbio/bio
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
Bioinformatic infrastructure libraries
Contributions:2 commits in 7 months
deltainfrastructurefastaalignmentgenomics
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