Gustavo Arango
Machine Learning Engineer at Virginia Tech
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGustavo Arango is a Machine Learning Engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and a decade of experience applying deep learning, bioinformatics, and cloud technologies to interdisciplinary genomics and metagenomics problems. He blends strong academic training—from electronic engineering and pattern recognition to advanced computational biology—with hands-on software skills across Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, and C++, enabling end-to-end solutions from models to web deployment. Recognized with a 2018 outstanding student award for multidisciplinary research, he has a track record of translating complex biological data into practical ML systems. Based in Arlington, MA, Gustavo is equally comfortable prototyping models, building cloud-native pipelines, and shipping user-facing web applications. A self-described programming and ML enthusiast, he brings research rigor and full-stack fluency to projects that sit at the intersection of biology and scalable software.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree (Electronic Engineering), Pattern Recognition, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Bachelor's degree (Electronic Engineering), Pattern Recognition, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Universidad Nacional de ColombiaVirginia Tech
English, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
python10
genes9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
deep-learning9
deep-neural-networks8
ml8
webservice8
data-science8
sequence7
metagenomics6
bioinformatics6
database5
autoencoder5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gaarangoa/poreARG
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 428 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
gaarangoa/ARGminer
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Curation of Antibiotic Resistance Genes by using crowdsourcing
Contributions:5 commits, 10 PRs, 182 pushes in 7 days
pythonresistancecurationbioinformaticsgenes
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