Sebastian Cocioba
Lead Plant & Flower Designer at Neoplants
Town of Huntington, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSebastian Cocioba is a plant-focused bioengineer and entrepreneur with eight years of experience designing novel ornamental traits through genetic and metabolic engineering. As Lead Plant & Flower Designer at Neoplants and founder of New York Botanics, he translates wet-lab R&D into commercializable, aesthetic plant phenotypes and advises early-stage plant biotech startups. His work spans floral genetic engineering, microbial fragrance development, and speed-breeding, reflecting a rare blend of creative design and rigorous lab practice. Sebastian’s background includes research stints at MIT Media Lab and commercial biotech, plus a prior career building user-centered medical software—evidence of cross-disciplinary problem solving. Based in Huntington, NY, he balances hands-on lab leadership with consultancy and product-focused innovation. Notably, he frames ornamental outcomes as both biological design and sensory experiences, pushing beyond conventional plant breeding into crafted biosynthetic traits.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA Biology, BA Biology at Stony Brook University (DROPPED OUT)Master of Science - MS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder (Unfinished; One Day I'll Get Back To This)Bachelor of Science (BS) Medical Laboratory Sciences, Bachelor of Science (BS) Medical Laboratory Sciences at Weber State University (Could Not Finish)
English, Romanian
Github Skills (20)
microbiology10
textual10
pure-python10
bioinformatics10
cloning10
genetics9
conda9
map-viewer9
workbench9
terminal-ui8
bioengineering8
biology8
package-management8
biopython7
bioconda7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Binomica-Labs/ProtoFlow
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:47 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
Binomica-Labs/Publications
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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.