Taher Mun
Principal Bioinformatics Software Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaher Mun is a Principal Bioinformatics Software Engineer with nine years of experience bridging academic research and industry productization of genomic technologies. Trained as a PhD in computer science at Johns Hopkins under Benjamin Langmead, he developed pan-genome indexing and variant-aware alignment tools that address reference bias and difficult-to-map regions. In industry roles at Illumina and now Roche Sequencing he builds scalable pipelines and QC/analysis systems to evaluate emerging sequencing methods and capture medically relevant genomic loci. He combines deep algorithmic expertise with hands-on engineering—frequently integrating short- and long-read data—and a track record of shipping production-ready tools informed by peer-reviewed publications. Based in San Diego, he brings both the rigor of academic methods and the pragmatism needed to move genomics innovations into practice.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Biology, 3.5, BS, Computer Science, Biology, 3.5 at Tufts UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
Gujarati, Arabic, English
Github Skills (27)
lift10
bioinformatics10
package-management9
conda9
genome9
bioconda9
genomics9
burrows-wheeler-transform9
fasta8
pathogen8
prefix8
sequencing8
graph8
genetics7
blast7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alshai/r-index
Mar 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:79 commits, 49 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 8 months
transformindexfull-textburrows-wheeler-transformlength
alshai/varcount
Mar 2019 - Sep 2021
Outputs alignment coverage over a predefined set of variants
Contributions:54 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
outputspredefinedalignmentcoverage
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