Summary
Shweta Gopaulakrishnan is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience building and deploying bioinformatics and genomics software at scale. She combines full-stack web and cloud-native skills (MEAN, Flask/Django, Docker, Kubernetes) with strong Python/C++ development and automated testing expertise to deliver FDA-regulated clinical NGS pipelines and customer-facing genomic products. At Illumina she led test, release, and automation for clinical and knowledge-base software; prior roles include engineering critical Bioconductor packages and productionizing data platforms at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and TACC. She has practical experience deploying CI/CD for large scientific software ecosystems, authoring R packages that bridge HDF5/BigQuery data access, and tuning cloud and HPC workflows for performance. Colleagues rely on her ability to translate complex genomics requirements into reproducible, testable software and to simplify clinical reporting through tooling that reduces manual overhead.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Bioinformatics, Master's degree Bioinformatics at University of Illinois Chicago
High School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan
Web Technologies Certificate Computer Software Engineering, Web Technologies Certificate Computer Software Engineering at Harvard Extension School
Bachelor's degree Biotechnology, Bachelor's degree Biotechnology at SRM IST Chennai
English, Tamil, Hindi, German, Sanskrit