rico meinl head of applied ai @retrobio_
rico meinl head of applied ai @retrobio_
Career
rico meinl studied at University of Applied Sciences, Wedel (B.S. Computer Science).
Head of AI at Retro Biosciences from 2022-05 to Present in Redwood City, CALeading an 8-person cross-disciplinary team (3 computational/AI, 5 wet lab) applying AI to cell reprogramming and protein engineering for longevity therapeutics. Initiated and drove collaboration with OpenAI producing GPT-4b micro, a protein language model that achieved a 50x incTBData Engineer at Talus Bioscience from 2021-04 to 2022-05 in Seattle, WA (remote)As first employee, built the company's proteomics data infrastructure from scratch, including cloud pipelines, analysis tooling, and computational workflows; cut pipeline runtime from days to hours. Authored nf-encyclopedia (Journal of Proteome Research, 2023); presented the appr
LD15 Cohort Member at Entrepreneurs First from 2020-09 to 2020-12 in London, UKJoined entrepreneurship program and built domain-specific semantic search for life sciences.SML/Data Engineer at Sainsbury’s from 2020-02 to 2020-09 in London, UKRewrote a critical text analytics pipeline in C# for a 50x speed improvement. Delivered a proof of concept for recommender system for Sainsbury’s online groceries delivery service.
DCo-Founder, CTO at Dresswell from 2019-02 to 2019-08 in Hamburg, GermanyDeveloped a phone body measurement algorithm using iPhone’s depth camera, ML-based segmentation, and keypoint detection. Built the iOS app and interviewed 700+ potential users to improve UX.
NSoftware Engineer at Novomind from 2016-09 to 2019-02 in Hamburg, GermanyPart-time during B.S.; established and led an AI team of 3 that helped the DevOps team cut bot-attack detection from 1 hour to <10 minutes.