Pharma and biotech engagements, as case studies.

Sole life-sciences domain SME working alongside a 15-person engineering team at a pharma client. The work spans requirements elicitation with pathology, lab-ops and informatics stakeholders, translating their needs into user stories and technical requirements, and product ownership across two linked workstreams.

Scanner and collaborator data ingestion. Automate ingestion of data generated by in-house pathology scanners and acquired from collaborators, moving files from on-prem and other clouds into the client's cloud landing layer. Segregate by modality, invoke modality-specific metadata parsers (writing new parsers where none exist), own the metadata schema, push extracted metadata to the ELN, and route images to the image viewer.

Manifest-to-ELN workflow. Ingest the raw biospecimen manifest (specimens acquired, grossed, blocked, slided, and assayed), transform it, extract relevant fields, populate ELN templates using business logic and Claude, and push populated records back to the ELN, so grossing decisions and chain of custody are captured end-to-end for every specimen scanned.

A pharma client was moving genomics and transcriptomics analysis to the cloud. I independently tested and validated all 17 Nextflow pipelines by executing them through Google Cloud Workflows, Seqera / Nextflow Tower, and locally; triaged observed errors with the engineering teams; and authored the developer documentation covering pipeline development, publishing (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), and execution. In parallel, I captured as-is (on-prem) and to-be (on-cloud) architectures of the proteomics and metabolomics analysis pipelines.

Implemented and maintained nf-core RNA-seq and WGS Nextflow pipelines on AWS. Processed and analysed proprietary and publicly available DNA and RNA expression datasets to identify novel cancer target candidates, and designed the siRNAs and qPCR primers used by the wet lab to test them. Managed a fully remote three-person team across time zones, defined delivery cadence and quality standards, and represented NonExomics at the startup meetup organised by VCR Park, Vizag.

Defined and owned the maturity assessment framework, strategic areas, levels, and baseline criteria, and designed the mapped survey and interview questions behind it. Established assessment areas for pharma benchmarking, co-conducted 16+ stakeholder interviews across labs and with instrument-connectivity experts, and translated leadership requirements into actionable steps for the team, including weekly leadership presentations.

Contributed bioinformatics-domain content to RFP responses aligned with client requirements, presented technical approach and capability directly to prospective clients, and built project plans and resource/loading (R/L) estimates mapped to delivery timelines. Translated ambiguous client requirements into structured scopes of work and team compositions.