Rico Meinl

Rico Meinl has a diverse work experience spanning several roles and industries. Rico currently works as a Bioinformatics Research Engineer at Retro Biosciences since May 2022. Prior to this, from April 2021 to May 2022, they served as a Machine Learning Engineer at Talus Bio, where they contributed to a research project and co-authored a scientific publication.

In early 2021, Rico worked as a Data Engineer at Rico Meinl, Ltd. for a brief period. Rico also participated in the OD50 Fellowship program at On Deck from January to March 2021.

In 2020, Rico was selected to join the LD15 Cohort of Entrepreneur First, where they gained experience in building co-founding teams and fundraising. Rico also worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Sainsbury's Digital, Tech and Data, where they successfully deployed data science pipelines and improved the text analytics pipeline for significant speed improvements.

Rico's earlier work experiences include serving as the Co-Founder and CTO of dresswell, a fashion technology startup, where they developed a phone body measurement algorithm and established the business roadmap. Rico also founded and hosted monthly AI meetups at meetup.ai, attracting a large community of attendees, and worked as a Machine Learning Engineer and Software Engineer at novomind AG, contributing to business growth and efficiency.

Overall, Rico Meinl's work experience showcases a strong background in bioinformatics, machine learning, entrepreneurship, and software engineering.

Rico Meinl has a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) degree in Computer Science from Fachhochschule Wedel, which they obtained between 2016 and 2022. In addition, they completed a Cloud DevOps Engineer Nanodegree from Udacity in 2020 and a Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree from Udacity in 2018.

Rico also holds several certifications. Rico obtained the following certifications from Coursera: Probabilistic Graphical Models 1: Representation in January 2021, Convolutional Neural Networks, Deep Learning Specialization, Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Sequence Models, and Structuring Machine Learning Projects in March 2018. Rico also obtained the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® certification from the Project Management Institute in December 2017. Additionally, Rico has a TOEFL certification from ETS, which they obtained in September 2019.