Ralph Cacho
Science Teaching Experience For Postdoc (STEP) Fellow at University of Washington
California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRalph Cacho is a PhD-trained researcher and educator blending a decade of hands-on protein engineering and natural products biochemistry with practical computational skills in Python, bioinformatics, Rosetta, and machine learning. As a STEP Fellow and former Baker lab postdoc, he designs de novo proteins, performs structural and thermodynamic characterization, and teaches data-driven approaches to protein structure prediction. His background spans enzymology, fungal genetics, metabolic engineering, and structural methods (NMR, X-ray, ITC), giving him a rare ability to move projects from genetic design through biophysical validation. He mentors students in applied data science and has translated research tools into classroom-ready activities, reflecting strong science communication experience from public outreach at the Pacific Science Center. Based in California, he combines academic rigor with practical software engineering instincts—often leveraging Python for both experimental data analysis and computational design workflows.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Tagalog
Github Skills (13)
monorepo6
javascript6
discord-bot6
typescript5
build-system5
discord4
discord-js4
laravel4
rust3
firestore2
user-experience2
commando2
redux1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ralphiz/ralphiz
Jul 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 3 years 11 months
ralphiz/lulu-bot
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
A Discord bot with dog related things.
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 6 months
discord-bot
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.