Summary
Youssef Darzi is a bioinformatics solution architect and entrepreneur with 10 years of experience building scalable genomic and microbiome analysis platforms that combine modern web stacks, cloud automation, and workflow orchestration. He holds a PhD in Metagenomics and has led end-to-end projects from genome assembly and clinical variant reporting to interactive big-data visualizations and machine learning–driven omics integration. As founder of Omixer he designs production-ready pipelines (Nextflow/WDL, Cromwell, AWS/Azure/GCP) and web apps (Angular, Micronaut/Flask) for research and clinical customers, having previously sped up GWAS and microarray workflows by orders of magnitude. His work spans academia and industry—from contributing tools like iPath3/FuncTree2 and gut-brain modules to commercializing whole-genome interpretation—bringing a rare combination of deep domain science and full-stack engineering. Based in Beirut, he uniquely bridges hands-on algorithmic development with cloud-native delivery and practical automation to turn complex biological data into actionable insights.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bioinformatics, Bachelor’s Degree, Bioinformatics at Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-II) - Clermont-Ferrand
Master’s Degree, Bioinformatics, graduated with honors, Master’s Degree, Bioinformatics, graduated with honors at Université de Montpellier
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics | Metagenomics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics | Metagenomics at KU Leuven | VUB
English, French, Arabic