Summary
Sebastian Ulloa is a senior software engineer and AI-savvy data scientist with a PhD in biocomputational sciences and a decade of experience translating research prototypes into production-grade, GxP-compliant pipelines for biotech and media. He has led cloud-native deployments and scalable data platforms across AWS and GCP, building end-to-end ML and RAG-powered products for vaccine design, neoantigen discovery, and journalism analytics. Comfortable across Python, SQL, CI/CD and HPC, he bridges statistical modeling, bioinformatics and industrial software engineering to handle large, sensitive datasets securely. Sebastian combines hands-on engineering with team leadership—having led multiple SCRUM teams and secured funding for proteomics tooling—while maintaining a researcher’s rigor from his academic publications and drug-discovery work. Based in Oslo, he thrives on learning new technologies and surfacing diverse perspectives to drive pragmatic, well-documented solutions.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Online program, computer science, Online program, computer science at DataCamp
Universidad de los Andes
Online program, leadership and innovation, Online program, leadership and innovation at MIT Professional Education
PhD in biotechnological, biocomputational, pharmaceutical and pharmacological sciences, biotechnology, PhD in biotechnological, biocomputational, pharmaceutical and pharmacological sciences, biotechnology at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Modern Physics at All Scales Summer School, natural sciences, Modern Physics at All Scales Summer School, natural sciences at Leiden University
English, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian