About

Prachiti P. Prabhu is a Bioinformatics Software Engineer at Genentech with over 3 years of experience in the industry and academia. She holds an MS in Bioinformatics from Georgia Institute of Technology and possesses strong skills in NGS data analysis, genomics, and data visualization. Prachiti is a meticulous and hardworking professional who is driven by results and looking to make a real-world impact. Prachiti is proficient in several programming languages including Python, R, Bash Scripting, Perl, and JavaScript. She has experience in database management using SQL and MySQL and is well-versed in operating systems such as MacOS, Linux, Windows, AWS, and GCP. Prachiti is also familiar with various bioinformatics resources such as STAR, Bowtie 2, GATK, PICARD, AlleleSeq, SAMtools, Bioconductor, GWAS, bedtools, PyMol, BLAST, MSA tools like ClustalW, MUSCLE, and MEGA, UMI-tools, primer designing, PyMol, UCSC Genome Browser, UK Biobank, NCBI, ENSEMBL, and variant calling. In addition, Prachiti has experience working with several tools such as pandas, NumPy, R-shiny, boto3, PyQt4, Jupyter, matplotlib, seaborn, sci-kit learn, and git. She is currently working at Genentech as a Bioinformatics Software Engineer and has previously worked as a Senior Scientist, Bioinformatics at Berkeley Lights, Inc. and as a Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prachiti's educational background includes an MS in Bioinformatics from Georgia Institute of Technology, a Master's Degree in Biotechnology from St. Xavier's College, and a Bachelor's Degree in Biotechnology from Mithibai College. She also holds an HSC from Sathaye College and an SSC from Utpal Shanghvi School. Overall, Prachiti has 4.18 years of relevant experience as a Software Engineer, Research Scientist, and Bioinformatics Software Engineer. She is a highly skilled and motivated professional who is committed to making a positive impact in the field of bioinformatics.