Saugat Poudel
Senior Bioinformatics Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaugat Poudel is a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer with a decade of scientific research and industry experience translating genomics and microbial biology into production-ready software and clinical-facing Bio-IT platforms. He combines a PhD in Biomedical Sciences with hands-on expertise in machine learning, cloud-native pipeline engineering (Snakemake/Nextflow), and MLOps to deliver scalable solutions for infectious disease surveillance and genomic epidemiology. At Palmona Pathogenomics he led cross-functional teams to build SaaS analytics and pangenomics feature pipelines for public health labs and biotech partners, and now continues that trajectory at Xaira Therapeutics. Known for bridging bench science and software development, he has published extensively on bacterial regulatory networks and built reusable Python packages and large-scale cloud workflows that accelerated bacterial genomics research. Based in Seattle, he pairs deep domain knowledge with product-minded leadership, capturing scientific user stories and turning them into validated, deployable tools that improve clinical and public health decision-making.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Microbiology, General, Bachelor's degree, Microbiology, General at University of WashingtonUniversity of California, San Diego
Github Skills (34)
genomics-visualization7
rna-seq7
genomics6
grammar6
ncbi6
python6
visualization6
snakemake6
comparative-genomics5
bioinformatics5
nextflow5
cardinality-estimation5
jupyter5
mer5
clustering-algorithm4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SBRG/dbgwas-network
Oct 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
sapoudel/gosling_data
Aug 2022 - Nov 2023
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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