Philip Capel
Software Engineer at Albert.io
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Capel is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of technical experience, currently building products at Albert.io after roles at Evozyne and Hashrocket. He brings a blend of hands-on engineering, apprenticeship-shaped discipline, and operational rigor honed earlier in data-center inventory and lab roles. Comfortable across backend and product-focused teams, he has a track record of shipping reliable code in fast-paced environments and learning on the job. Based in Chicago, he pairs a formal computer science background with earlier study in biology and music theory—an unusual cross-disciplinary foundation that informs his methodical yet creative problem solving. Colleagues describe him as sharp, quick-thinking, and unfazed by complexity.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor’s Degree, Biology, General, Bachelor’s Degree, Biology, General at Texas Woman's UniversityChapel Hill High SchoolMusic Theory and Composition, Music Theory and Composition at University of North Texas
Spanish, English
Github Skills (69)
genomics10
cvs10
elixir10
sequence-alignment10
dot10
phylogenetics10
bioinformatics10
protein-structure10
git-repository9
realtime9
ueberauth9
python9
two-dimensional9
react9
biopython9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pcapel/phoenix-webrtc-revisited
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
A simple video chat implementation using WebRTC and Elixir/Phoenix
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 2 months
chatelixirwebrtcelixir-phoenixphoenix
bio-ex/bio_ex
Nov 2022 - Mar 2024
Bioinformatics for elixir
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 21 PRs in 1 year 3 months
bioinformaticselixir
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