Paulo Branco
Bioinformatician
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaulo Branco is a bioinformatician based in Cambridge with nine years’ experience applying AI and software engineering to biological data. He holds an MS in Bioinformatics and a specialist diploma in Artificial Intelligence, and earlier trained in computer science and even tourism, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary outlook. Paulo has moved between research and industry—contributing to EMBL-EBI, Alana AI and FITec—building production-ready pipelines, AI models and full-stack systems using Python, R, Java and C#. He brings hands-on expertise in UNIX environments, Docker, Git and large-scale genomics workflows developed during his masters and BioME research. Notably, his background includes practical ML deployments such as transformer failure prediction and piRNA neural predictors, showing he turns academic methods into operational solutions. He combines deep technical rigor with a knack for translating complex biological questions into reproducible, production-focused software.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Artificial Intelligence, Specialist, Artificial Intelligence at Universidade de PernambucoFederal University of Rio Grande do NorteBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Universidade Federal da Paraíba
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Github Skills (13)
plugin9
perl9
api9
language-agnostic8
data-access8
sql8
rest7
databases7
restful6
genomes4
genomics3
bioinformatics3
remote-development1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Contributions:62 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
pblins/simple_aligner
Jun 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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