# Aroon T. Chande

> Computational biologist & bioinformatics engineer. Ten-plus years across
> clinical genomics, oncology, and drug development — from CDC pathogen
> surveillance and drug development at Seagen to clinical genomics at Color
> Health and the NIH All of Us program.

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## Current role

Staff Bioinformatics Engineer, Color Health (San Francisco, CA) — May 2022–present.
Co-owns computational infrastructure for the NIH All of Us return-of-results
program (200,000+ participants); leads pharmacogenetics product work for
oncology care; designs and validates clinical genomics pipelines in a
CLIA/CAP-accredited, FDA-regulated environment.

## Prior experience

- Bioinformatics Scientist, Seagen (Seattle, WA), Aug 2020–May 2022 — built an
  R Shiny analysis platform for ML-based clustering and differential
  expression; led a 30,000+ patient harmonized tumor RNA-seq dataset effort.
- Scientific Advisor, Applied Bioinformatics Laboratory (Atlanta, GA),
  May 2016–May 2022 — CDC-collaborative pathogen surveillance software and
  algorithms for select-agent genome reconstruction from NGS data.
- COVID-19 Pandemic Response, Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA), Mar–Aug 2020 — lead
  developer for a risk-assessment tool serving 50M+ predictions to 8M users,
  and for MyTest, the first campus-wide free COVID testing program in the US.

## Education

Ph.D. Bioinformatics, Georgia Institute of Technology (2020) — human
computational genetics, disease burden modeling in Colombia/South America.
M.S. Bioinformatics, Georgia Tech (2016). B.S. Microbiology & B.S. Biology,
University of Iowa (2013–2015).

## Skills

Python, R, C++, SQL, Bash, Terraform; AWS, Docker, Kubernetes; Nextflow, WDL/
Cromwell; Flask, Django, FastAPI, React; WGS/WES/RNA-seq/pharmacogenetics;
GATK, samtools/bcftools, BWA/minimap2, VEP/SnpEff.

## Links

- Résumé: https://www.aroonchande.com/resume/
- Publications: https://www.aroonchande.com/publications/
- GitHub: https://github.com/ar0ch
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xO-7NZgAAAAJ&hl=en
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5260-3135
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aroon-chande/
- Contact: mail@aroonchande.com