Colby Ford
Owner, Principal Consultant at Silico Biosciences
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolColby Ford is an AI cloud architect, computational biologist, and data scientist with a decade of experience building scalable genomics and bioinformatics solutions on Azure and Databricks. He founded Tuple (a Microsoft and Databricks partner) and has led cloud transformation efforts across pharma, biotech, and digital health, including productionizing ML models and GxP-capable pipelines at Pfizer. An academic collaborator and visiting scholar at UNC Charlotte, he blends deep domain research in infectious disease and human genetics with production engineering—coauthoring Microsoft exam content (DP-100) and teaching graduate cloud computing. His work uniquely bridges industry-grade cloud architecture and cutting-edge academic methods, and he’s an MS AI & Azure MVP who now applies generative and computational design to AI-driven drug discovery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at University of North Carolina at CharlotteAssociate in Science - AS Mathematics, Associate in Science - AS Mathematics at Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (84)
pyspark10
haddock10
computational-biology10
random-forest10
protein-sequences10
decision-tree10
bioinformatics10
generative-model10
azure9
apache-spark9
diffusion-models9
coders9
genomics9
docking9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
janieslab/janieslab.github.io
Jul 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:81 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
colbyford/evodiff
Oct 2023 - May 2025
Contributions:1 release, 13 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 7 months
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