# Bishal Gautam

> Senior Software Engineer — Backend & Distributed Systems

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bishal

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Publica by IAS
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Publica by IAS
Jan 2023 – Present

### Associate Software Engineer @ Publica by IAS
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Research Associate @ GigaGen Inc
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | South San Francisco, California

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Santa Barbara, California Area
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Plaxco Lab
• Studied unfolding thermodynamics of protein L to expand lab patented electrochemical biosensor platform
• Assisted in discovering that polyols confer no additional stability to proteins attached to surfaces with hydroxyl-terminated monolayers; assisted in data analysis of denaturation titrations using in-house written MatLab scripts
• Investigated the thermodynamic stability of protein L by circular dichroism following purification of its charge variants via various purification methods including SEC with AKTA-FPLC

### Summer Research Intern @ Stanford University School of Medicine
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Robinson Lab
• Researched low degree inflammation in Osteoarthritis to identify novel pathogenesis
• Analyzed ESCRT pathway proteins in synovium fibroblasts using immunoprecipitation and western blot to probe irregular protein expression, and resolve basis for osteoarthritis pathogenesis


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry w/ Highest Honors
UC Santa Barbara


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bishalkgautam
- Portfolio: https://www.bishalkgautam.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-10