Joseph Mulka
Bioinformaticist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Mulka is a bioinformaticist and software engineer with a decade of experience applying modern engineering practices to biotech problems, currently contributing to clinical and research workflows at Northwestern Medicine. He has built production bioinformatics pipelines and tooling at DNAnexus and Bio-Rad, and earlier developed high-performance and embedded software for automotive and HPC environments. Joe combines a dual BS in Microbiology and Computer Science with hands-on research experience—he co-authored an NSF-funded simulation study on microbial evolution—and continues to publish code and algorithmic solutions on GitHub, including updates to the Ribeck Adaptation Sim and Rosalind problem solutions. Comfortable moving between research and production, he focuses on pragmatic, reproducible software that advances biological insight and clinical impact.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Microbiology and Computer Science Dual Degree, Bachelor of Science - BS Microbiology and Computer Science Dual Degree at Michigan State University
English
Github Skills (3)
wake-on-lan10
barrage10
python9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JoeMulka/Giraffe
Sep 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
JoeMulka/Ribeck-Adaptation-Sim
Aug 2019 - Jan 2024
Repository for the Adaptation Sim
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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