Aidan Lakshman
Software Engineer III at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAidan Lakshman is a Software Engineer III at Google with eight years of experience building scalable storage systems, currently contributing to Google Colossus. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Pittsburgh, where he developed efficient algorithms for processing messy, large-scale genomic data and worked on clustering massive networks under tight resource constraints. Comfortable across R, C, Python and distributed computing environments, he also maintains Biostrings, a key R package for genomic analysis, and has production experience with Node.js/React and AWS serverless patterns. His background spans research and product engineering—from reconstructing ancestral genomes to reducing cloud onboarding times from hours to minutes—reflecting a rare blend of algorithmic depth and pragmatic system design. An avid tinkerer, he runs a Raspberry Pi cluster as a hobby project and cites Forth as his favorite programming language, signaling a fondness for unconventional, low-level tools.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics at University of Central FloridaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Informatics at University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineJapanese Language and Literature, Japanese Language and Literature at Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies
Japanese, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (45)
core-package10
security9
extend9
bioinformatics9
computational-biology9
cognitive-science8
codemod8
ide8
rstudio8
r8
computational-neuroscience8
nodejs7
recurrent-neural-networks7
aws7
bioconductor7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ahl27/SynExtend
Dec 2021 - Apr 2026
Tools for working with synteny objects
Contributions:31 PRs, 415 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 5 months
synteny
ahl27/CompGenomicsBioc2022
May 2022 - Jan 2024
Workshop to be given at Bioconductor 2022. We'll be going over conducting comparative genomics analyses using tools in `SynExtend` and `DECIPHER`.
Contributions:1 PR, 134 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 8 months
bioconductorcomparative-genomics
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