I am Camila Duitama González, a Research Software Engineer and Data Scientist with 5+ years of experience building production-ready software, ML models, and scalable data pipelines. I am based in Paris and open to new opportunities.

I work at Institut Pasteur in the Evolutionary Dynamics of Infectious Diseases group led by Dr. Sebastian Duchene. I previously completed a PRAIRIE-funded PhD and postdoctoral fellowship under the supervision of Dr. Rayan Chikhi and Dr. Hugues Richard. Over the years I have authored and published multiple open-source tools actively used in ancient DNA, metagenomics, and genome sequence analyses, with work published in journals including Nature Microbiology, Oxford Bioinformatics, and Microbiome. I combine deep domain expertise in computational biology with a broad technical stack spanning Python, AWS, HPC clusters, and ML frameworks — a rare combination that allows me to work across research and engineering.

I hold an MSc in Life Science Informatics from Universität Bonn and a B.Eng in Biological Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Outside of work, I dance salsa and explore decolonial, anticapitalist, and feminist artwork and literature.