Anmol Gorakshakar

About

Hi, I'm Anmol.

Computational biologist by training, software engineer by conviction. I spend my days making scientific data behave — and I care a lot about building systems that scientists can actually trust.

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New York, NY — computational biology & scientific software

The Short Version

How I got into scientific software

Earn a scientist's trust in the system and you give the science its time back.

My degree was in biotechnology — assays and wet-lab benches, not a line of code in sight. The computation snuck in later, and mostly sideways.

Protein engineering is where I picked up the math: Fourier transforms, meshes, and fields drawn around molecular surfaces. My first real language was ICM — a gloriously niche way to describe atomic angles. Deeply academic, and nowhere near software.

The formal engineering came on the job — orchestration, task managers, the unglamorous machinery that keeps time-driven pipelines running in sync.

What's kept me here is a conviction: science leaves too much manual out of habit or mistrust. Prove to a scientist that a system can be trusted with the tedious part, and you hand back the hours that matter — the science itself.

Based inNew York, NY
CurrentlyViome
Trained inBiotechnology
First languageICM

Off the Clock

What I'm usually doing

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Photography

Street and travel frames, mostly chasing light between buildings.

Cooking

Recipes as reproducible experiments; the spice rack is version-controlled.

Programming

Side projects and tinkering, mostly for the excuse to learn something new.