Siddhartha Basu
Bioinformatics Software Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSiddhartha Basu is a Bioinformatics Software Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and maintaining large-scale biological databases and software infrastructures, currently based at Northwestern University. He specializes in structuring unstructured biological data—integrating high-throughput omics, curated gene annotations, and ontologies—while optimizing platforms for analysis, web visualization, and mobile access. Siddhartha has hands-on expertise migrating legacy systems (notably a 10+ year Oracle database) to modern PostgreSQL stacks while keeping production services running uninterrupted. He combines system architecture, full-stack web development, and systems administration with mentoring responsibilities and community-facing technical support for resources like dictyBase. His background in mitochondrial proteomics and long tenure in academia give him a strong appreciation for data provenance and long-term sustainability of biological resources. He is increasingly focused on extracting learning patterns from large unstructured datasets to drive predictive, data-informed solutions.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. shymaprasad mukherjee institutionMasters, Biochemistry, Masters, Biochemistry at University of Calcutta
Hindi
Github Skills (150)
ontologies10
data-files10
frontpage10
gqlgen10
migration10
graphql-query9
golang9
trigger9
developer-tools9
navbar9
circos9
owl9
genomics9
docker9
daemonset8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cybersiddhu/spf13-vim
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:43 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 4 months
dictybase-docker/cluster-ops
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 PRs, 177 pushes, 23 branches in 11 months
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