Zayed Albertyn
Bioinformatics Director
Clifton, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZayed Albertyn is a Bioinformatics Director with over 16 years of technical and leadership experience building NGS informatics and big data solutions for pharma, agriculture, and biotech. As cofounder of Novocraft Technologies he combines hands-on HPC and pipeline engineering with strategic business development and international partnerships across the US and Asia-Pacific. He has modernized sequencing workflows for large organizations like Roche and Janssen, applying disease and translational informatics to oncology and other therapeutic areas. Multilingual and technically fluent, he develops new protocols across all major sequencing platforms and in cloud/HPC environments. He pairs an MSc in Computational Biology with a practical track record of converting complex research needs into deployable, scalable analysis systems. Uncommonly, he balances ongoing scientific publication efforts with active commercial growth, bridging research output and real-world impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biochemistry and Microbiology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biochemistry and Microbiology at University of the WitwatersrandMSc, Computational Biology, MSc, Computational Biology at University of the Western Cape
Afrikaans, Malay, English
Github Skills (46)
reproducible-science9
bioinformatics9
groovy8
pipeline8
nextflow8
reproducible-research8
singularity8
slurm8
dataflow7
dsl7
aws7
docker7
wdl6
dynamodb6
hpc6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
freezecoder/mutsneedle
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
freezecoder/tibanna
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Tibanna helps you run your genomic pipelines on Amazon cloud (AWS). It is used by the 4DN DCIC (4D Nucleome Data Coordination and Integration Center) to process data. Tibanna supports CWL/WDL (w/ docker), Snakemake (w/ conda) and custom Docker/shell command.
Contributions:44 pushes in 11 months
centeramazon-cloudaws-cloudcondaamazon
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