Vahid Jalili
Computational Scientist II
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVahid Jalili is a computational scientist with 12 years of experience specializing in AI, high-performance cloud computing, and data-intensive bioinformatics workflows. Currently at the Broad Institute, he brings deep backend engineering skills demonstrated by contributions to the widely used Galaxy project—improving object store management and cloud authorization with integration tests for reproducible, cloud-native data analysis. His PhD work and subsequent research roles focused on scalable NGS tertiary analysis and similarity search algorithms, showing a blend of rigorous algorithmic thinking and practical system design. Comfortable bridging research and production, he excels at turning complex genomics requirements into robust, testable cloud services.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
Github Skills (9)
python10
apidoc9
bioinformatics9
api9
test-integration8
integration-testing8
postgresql6
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/galaxy
Dec 2016 - May 2021
Data intensive science for everyone.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 96 PRs, 365 comments in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Vahid primarily contributed to backend functionalities, with a focus on the Galaxy tool shed and object store management. They extended the attributes reported by the system and modified the object store initialization to include user context. Furthermore, the user's work encompassed updates to cloud authorization mechanisms, including the addition of integration tests and optionality for specific cloud providers. The contributions demonstrate an understanding of the application's architecture and focus on data-related functions.
pythonsciencepipelinednadata-science
galaxyproject/cloudauthz
Feb 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:6 releases, 78 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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