Jeff Cole
Senior Bioinformatics Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Cole is a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer and computational molecular biologist with a decade of experience building ML-driven bioinformatics software to discover novel antimicrobial peptides. Based in Austin, he combines deep expertise in evolutionary genomics and toxin evolution with production-grade engineering skills in Python, R, Go, and Linux. His work includes automated pipelines for mining bacterial genomes, ML models predicting peptide toxicity, and APIs that make protein language models (BERT, ESM) accessible as pandas-friendly tools. Now at Bio-Techne after a postdoc at UT Austin, he bridges academic rigor and industry delivery—often translating complex evolutionary insights into scalable, reproducible software. An unexpected strength is his ability to operationalize cutting-edge protein language models into practical discovery workflows that accelerate antimicrobial research.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at Samford UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology, General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology, General at East Carolina University
Github Skills (90)
rna-seq10
mljar10
decision-tree10
hyperparameters10
bioinformatics10
nextflow9
lightgbm9
fasta9
package-management9
feature-engineering9
automl9
random-forest9
computational-biology9
fusion9
catboost9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tijeco/berteome
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
A library to analyze and explore protein sequences using BERT models
Contributions:2 reviews, 93 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 4 months
bert
tijeco/venom_codon_usage
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:184 pushes, 1 branch, 9 issues in 1 year 1 month
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