--- id: miro_miro_cupak name: Miro Cupak company: DNAstack featured: false photo: /images/speakers/miro_miro_cupak.jpg photoUrl: /images/speakers/miro_miro_cupak.jpg socials: - icon: twitter link: 'https://twitter.com/mirocupak' name: '@mirocupak' - icon: github link: 'https://github.com/mcupak' name: mcupak - icon: linkedin link: 'https://mirocupak.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirocupak' name: LinkedIn shortBio: >- Software developer with passion for genetics and building meaningful things. Java, open source, and distributed systems enthusiast. companyLogo: /images/speakers/company/dnastack.jpg companyLogoUrl: /images/speakers/company/dnastack.jpg country: 'Toronto, Ontario' --- Miro is a VP of Engineering at DNAstack, where he builds a leading genomics cloud platform. He is a Java enthusiast with expertise in distributed systems and middleware, passionate about genetics and making meaningful software. Miro is the creator of the largest search and discovery engine of human genetic data, and the author of a book on parallelization of genomic queries. In his spare time, he blogs and contributes to several open-source projects.