Jacob Feala
Startup Creation
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Feala is a computational biology and bioinformatics leader with 11+ years of experience building production-grade NGS pipelines, scalable genomics infrastructure, and ML-driven biological analyses. He has led cross-functional teams from prototype to clinic—securing FDA pre-IND approval for a personalized cancer vaccine bioinformatics pipeline and supporting large pharma investment diligence. Comfortable at the intersection of software engineering and biology, he designs reproducible, high-performance workflows for massive datasets (TCGA, GTEx) and applies deep learning tightly coupled to experimental validation. His background spans startups and enterprise R&D—from Flagship startup creation and forward-deployed engineering to leading computational biology and generative-protein prototyping at Generate. Known for translating complex read-level genomics into actionable insights, he also brings systems-level thinking from a PhD in Bioengineering and dual BS degrees in electrical and biomedical engineering. Despite a self-described love/hate relationship with bioinformatics, he consistently delivers pragmatic, production-focused solutions for hard problems in oncology and genomics.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoB.S Electrical Engineering, B.S Electrical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (37)
python-modules10
orchestration-framework10
hadoop9
r9
visualization9
avro9
python9
luigi9
gwas9
bioinformatics9
scheduling9
dependency-resolution9
genomics9
parquet8
scala8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
outlierbio/ob-notebooks
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
outlierbio/ob-pipelines
Jan 2017 - Sep 2018
Luigi pipelines and Dockerized apps for bioinformatics and data science
Contributions:74 commits, 1 PR, 48 pushes in 1 year 8 months
bioinformaticsdata-science
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