Bioinformatics · multi-omics · scientific workflows

I help research teams turn biological data into decisions they can act on.

Bioinformatics scientist with 10+ years across academic research, an early-stage cancer biotech, and global pharma consulting. My work spans NGS pipeline design, biomarker and target-discovery programmes, cloud-based scientific platforms, and digital maturity assessment inside pharma R&D labs.

Based in Pune, India · open to relocate outside India (UK, EU, Canada, Singapore welcome)
Portrait of Shraddha Puntambekar
17
omics Nextflow pipelines validated
10+
years across academia, biotech, pharma
6
peer-reviewed publications
3
person bioinformatics function built & led

Selected work

Problem → what I did → outcome
Cognizant
Lifesciences SME · BA · Product Owner
Aug 2026 to present
Digital pathology data platform

Sole life-sciences domain SME alongside a 15-person engineering team at a pharma client, translating stakeholder needs into user stories and technical requirements. The platform handles two linked problems: how scanner and collaborator data lands in the client's cloud and reaches the ELN and image viewer, and how the raw specimen manifest, grossing decisions and assay outputs stay tied to chain of custody.

Role BA / Product Owner / scientific SME, across requirements elicitation, user stories, metadata-schema design and workflow orchestration using Claude for ELN template population.
Cognizant
Bioinformatics SME
2023 to 2026
Validating 17 omics pipelines for cloud production

When a pharma client moved genomics and transcriptomics to the cloud, the harder question was not whether the pipelines ran, it was whether the next engineer could pick them up and rerun them. My work sat at the intersection of validation, error triage, and developer documentation.

Outcome Error knowledgebase in daily use, a full pipeline lifecycle doc suite, and as-is / to-be architectures that shaped the proteomics and metabolomics cloud migration.
NonExomics LLP
Head of Computational Biology
2021 to 2023
Building a biotech's bioinformatics function from the ground up

An early-stage biotech needed a bioinformatics function that could feed the wet lab, from pipelines and target shortlists to the siRNAs and primers that would actually test the predictions. Building it meant deciding what to run in-house, what to reuse from open source, and what a remote team of three could realistically ship.

Outcome Candidate biomarkers and therapeutic targets experimentally validated in the wet lab; the company's bioinformatics function established and delivering on schedule.
Cognizant
Lab Informatics Scientific SME
2023 to 2024
Digital maturity assessment for pharma R&D labs

Digital maturity is easy to talk about and hard to measure objectively. The framework we built made the conversation with 16+ stakeholders comparable across sites, and the scoring made the picture actionable rather than anecdotal.

Outcome A scoring heatmap and cross-site benchmark used to prioritise digital investment, with follow-on dashboard and instrument-connectivity workstreams.