Joey Azofeifa
CEO & Co-founder at Arpeggio Bio
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoey Azofeifa is a computational biologist and entrepreneurial leader with 12 years of experience at the intersection of statistics, genomics, and machine learning. As CEO and co-founder of Arpeggio Bio, he leads an AI- and robotics-driven startup focused on combating cancer drug resistance, backed by Y Combinator and over $20M in venture funding. His prior roles at Merck and Forma Therapeutics combined novel unsupervised and probabilistic modeling with hands-on sequencing and multi-omics pipeline development, translating complex experimental data into actionable biological insight. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder and a background in biochemistry from Vassar, enabling him to bridge wet-lab intuition with rigorous computational methods. Colleagues describe him as someone who builds cross-disciplinary teams that blend biology, chemistry, and data science—a maker who writes the models and also scales them to automated lab workflows.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
S19 batch, S19 batch at Y CombinatorBiochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Vassar CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
English
Github Skills (15)
seq9
rna-seq9
transcription8
chip-seq7
genomics7
bioinformatics7
biology4
strings4
chemistry4
science4
drawing3
parser3
parsing3
javascript2
data-visualization2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
azofeifa/pyD3
Dec 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
azofeifa/Tfit
Jul 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:416 commits, 2 PRs, 429 pushes in 4 years 8 months
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