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 (30)
nextflow8
reproducible-research8
bioinformatics8
slurm7
reproducible-science7
singularity7
aws7
groovy7
pipeline6
docker6
dataflow6
dsl6
dynamodb5
hpc5
snakemake5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
freezecoder/tibanna
Mar 2020 - Apr 2026
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:50 pushes in 6 years 2 months
centeramazon-cloudaws-cloudcondaamazon
freezecoder/ngsrview
Feb 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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