Alberto Nava
Software Engineer at sciencecorp
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlberto Nava is a software engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience at the intersection of computational engineering and biotech. Trained with a BS in Chemical Engineering & Applied Math and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley, he focuses on engineering proteins to advance human health and environmental solutions. He blends rigorous academic research with practical software engineering, enabling lab-scale ideas to be encoded, automated, and scaled. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable modeling complex biochemical systems and writing production-ready code to deploy those models. Although his public GitHub presence is minimal, his profile reflects hands-on engineering within the scientific domain rather than open-source visibility. He brings a research-first mindset to software problems, translating deep domain knowledge into robust engineering outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering & Applied Math, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering & Applied Math at University of Nevada, Reno
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
protein-structure8
drug-discovery8
automation4
grpc3
modular2
python2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
UNR-CFB/lahontan
Aug 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:250 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
Alberto024/personal-site
Oct 2022 - Sep 2025
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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