Experience

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Work experience

Software Engineering Intern, Posit (Summer 2026)
On the Shiny team in Posit’s Open Source group. Contributing to Shiny and other packages, with my main focus on building Shiny apps for the life sciences.
Human Genetics gRED Intern, Genentech, South San Francisco (Jun to Aug 2025)
Built a Shiny platform and R package for locus-centered visualization across 11,000+ GWAS, eQTL, pQTL, single-cell, and ATAC-seq datasets in Alzheimer’s disease. Worked with scientists and engineers to fit it into secure internal systems and presented it to the Human Genetics department.
Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Genomics and Data Science, UAB (Aug 2022 to present)
Single-nuclei and multi-omics analysis of NF1-associated tumor models to find testable hypotheses for drug repurposing. Caught and validated sample contamination in 3′ datasets with 10x Genomics, and built and deployed 5+ Shiny apps on UAB infrastructure for visualization, sample tracking, and multi-omics exploration.
Business Development Fellow, Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (HIIE), UAB (Dec 2023 to present)
Assessed the commercial potential of 12 UAB technologies and prepared licensing materials, and automated internal workflows with Power Automate and the Microsoft Graph API.
Chief Technical Officer, FundU Games Pvt. Ltd., Delhi (2021 to 2022)
Led an 8-person team building a FinTech product with React, Node.js, R Shiny, MongoDB, and Docker. Ran the AWS setup and helped secure initial funding.
Bioinformatics Engineer, STEM-Away (Jun 2021 to Aug 2022)
Mentored student teams and built bioinformatics course materials and app templates.

Education

Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering & Bioinformatics, University of Alabama at Birmingham (Aug 2022 to present)

Certificate, Translation of Biomedical Innovation to Clinical Practice, UAB (Aug 2023 to Aug 2024)

B.Tech, Bioinformatics, Amity University, Noida (Aug 2017 to Jul 2021)

Honors & awards

  • Google Cloud Research Credit Award, Google (2026)
  • Elected Member, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, UAB (2025)
  • Student Member, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) (2024 to present)
  • Blazer Graduate Research Fellowship, UAB (2022 to 2023)
  • Professional Development & Travel Awards, UAB CCTS & UAB GSG (2022 to 2024)

Teaching & leadership

  • Certified Instructor, The Carpentries (2024 to present). Taught workshops on R, Git, Bash, and Python at UAB’s Biological Data Science Core.
  • President, Informatics Club, UAB (2023 to 2025). Grew computational training across departments through workshops, peer-learning sessions, and professional-development seminars.
  • Mentor, STEM-Away. Gave a talk and live demo on containerized bioinformatics and deploying R Shiny apps on AWS.