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About Me
Hi! I'm Mark Apinis, and welcome!
I am passionate about everything involving programming, data, artificial intelligence, scientific discovery, and fighting disease. Today, I am a Full Stack AI Solutions Engineer at Pfizer in Cambridge, MA, working in medicine design and leveraging LLMs and agents to accelerate chemical and medicinal discovery.
Previously, I was a bioinformatics engineer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and a co-op at Intuit, Novartis, and Moderna. I hold two degrees from Northeastern University: B.S. in computer science and biology (2023) and M.S. in bioinformatics (2024), and during most semesters I was a computer science TA. I like to imagine that one of my last jobs will be teaching.
In my spare time, I like to lift, do anything outside (especially hiking, camping, and disc golf), play tennis, take photos, scuba dive, read, watch baseball, and explore. I'm a huge advocate for public transit, zoning reform, and green+nuclear energy, and I love to bike or take the train for everything from traveling to running errands.
Some Things I'm Good At
- Programming efficiently and smartly in all sorts of languages
- Modern software development stacks
- Agentic design and engineering
- Breaking complex topics down into teachable chunks
- Jumping into a complex problem and learning by doing
- Cooking
Some Things I'm Getting Better At
- Everything I'm good at, plus
- Servers and networking
- Machine learning, especially in biology
- Recreational reading
- Disc golf
- Photography
Some Albums I Liked Listening To:
- October Forever by Driveways
- There's A Whole World Out There by Arm's Length
- Detour by Kim Petras
- Strange Desire by Bleachers
- Good Looks by A Story Told
- There Existed an Addiction to Blood by clipping.
Some Books I Liked Reading:
- East West Street by Philippe Sands
- The Power Broker by Robert Caro
- Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
- Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu
- Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar
