Siddhartha Basu
Bioinformatics Software Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSiddhartha Basu is a Bioinformatics Software Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and maintaining large-scale biological databases and software infrastructures, currently based at Northwestern University. He specializes in structuring unstructured biological data—integrating high-throughput omics, curated gene annotations, and ontologies—while optimizing platforms for analysis, web visualization, and mobile access. Siddhartha has hands-on expertise migrating legacy systems (notably a 10+ year Oracle database) to modern PostgreSQL stacks while keeping production services running uninterrupted. He combines system architecture, full-stack web development, and systems administration with mentoring responsibilities and community-facing technical support for resources like dictyBase. His background in mitochondrial proteomics and long tenure in academia give him a strong appreciation for data provenance and long-term sustainability of biological resources. He is increasingly focused on extracting learning patterns from large unstructured datasets to drive predictive, data-informed solutions.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. shymaprasad mukherjee institutionMasters, Biochemistry, Masters, Biochemistry at University of Calcutta
Hindi
Github Skills (102)
ontologies10
data-files10
trigger10
developer-tools9
navbar9
circos9
genomics9
migration9
container-image9
gqlgen9
docker9
graphql9
daemonset8
database8
cli-application8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dictyBase/modware-content
Jan 2018 - Oct 2024
dictyBase API server to manage the data from rich text editor frontend.
Contributions:29 PRs, 111 pushes, 28 branches in 6 years 10 months
frontendrich-text-editorgolanggrpc
dictyBase/modware-annotation
Nov 2018 - May 2026
dictyBase grpc service to manage annotations of biological entities.
Contributions:91 PRs, 266 pushes, 78 branches in 7 years 6 months
grpcgolang
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