Dreycey Albin

Dreycey Albin

Senior ML Software Engineer
at Microsoft Azure

About Me

ML engineer with roots in computational biology, focused on bridging research and production systems. I design and validate traditional machine learning and deep learning models, build experimentation frameworks, and ship low-latency inference pipelines. At Microsoft Azure, I work at the intersection of modeling and distributed systems on Resource Central, the central ML platform in the control plane, serving all regions and handling more than 1 million requests per day.

New York City, NY

education
Ph.D. Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder · NSF GRFP Fellow
2020 – 2023
M.Sc. Computational Biology (SSPB Program)
Rice University
2018 – 2020
B.S. Chemistry + B.S. Biology
University of Northern Colorado · McNair Scholar
2012 – 2017
interests
Computational BiologyGenerative AIProbabilistic Machine LearningML SystemsDistributed Systems

Work Experience

Microsoft Azure

New York, NY
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Level 63 08/2026 – Present
Machine Learning Engineer II, Level 62 03/2025 – 08/2026
Machine Learning Engineer II, Level 61 05/2023 – 03/2025

Medtronic

Boulder, CO
Research Engineer, Contract 09/2021 – 05/2022

Software / Projects

EnrichSeq

EnrichSeq

A bioinformatics pipeline for phage enrichment analysis.

Python / Nextflow / Bash
PhageBox

PhageBox

Embedded system for bacteriophage research automation.

C/C++
PhageScanner

PhageScanner

A reconfigurable machine learning pipeline for labeling ORFs/proteins in bacteriophage genomes and metagenomic data.

Python
PhageFilter

PhageFilter

PhageFilter uses a Sequence Bloom Tree (SBT) to filter bacteriophage reads from metagenomic files.

Rust
Metscale

Metscale

MetScale performs metagenome comparison estimates, taxonomic classifications, and functional predictions on metagenomic data

Snakemake / Python
SeqScreen

SeqScreen

SeqScreen sensitively assigns taxonomic classifications and functional annotations to short and long (ont) DNA sequences.

Python / Bash / Nextflow
Kvar

Kvar

A pipeline for finding disease-associated kmers in genomic data

Bash / Python / R

Contact

Feel free to reach out for collaborations or questions.