# Kola Awe

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Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kola

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Moov Financial
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025
Moov is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for embedding banking services within any application.

### Software Engineer @ Cityblock Health
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Cityblock Health aims to build a scalable solution to address the root causes of health for underserved communities.

### Software Engineer @ Ligandal Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Automating the development of novel nanoparticles for effective delivery of gene editing technology.

### Associate - Research & Development Tax Credit Services @ KPMG US
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Identified and substantiated qualified research costs and activities at organizations such as high technology, pharmaceuticals, computer companies and businesses investing in product and process development.

Assisted companies in recovering research and development (R&D) costs, and increasing returns on R&D investments while fully complying with the complexities of the law.

### Undergraduate Researcher - UCLA Department of Microbiolgy, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics @ University of California, Los Angeles
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Isolated, sequenced, and annotated a novel Mycobacteriophage, Murica, capable of consistently infecting the bacterial strain Mycobacterium smegmatis, a close phylogenetic relative of M. tuberculosis and M. leprae . 

Discovery data and bioinformatic annotation results were published to the Actinobacteriophage Database at PhagesDB.org.

Learned and utilized isolation, purification, cloning (PCR), and sequencing techniques. Performed and/or analyzed restriction digests, gel electrophoresis runs, western blots, fluorescence microscopy and electron microscopy. Employed bioinformatic software such as DNA Master, GeneMark, HHPred, NCBI Blast, Phamerator, and PhagesDB to perform comparative genomic analysis on the sequenced Murica genome.

### Undergraduate Researcher - Dr. James Bowie Lab @ UCLA Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Conducted independent research focused on characterizing and crystallizing the SAM domain and kinase domain of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.

Learned and performed solution dilutions and preparations, PCR, restriction digests, ligations transformations, molecular cloning, bacterial cultures/plating, protein expression and purification, DNA and protein gel runs and analysis, chromatography and assays.

### Campus Extern Representative @ Boster Biological Technology Co.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Promoted Boster Biology Technology Co. antibody products to the UCLA campus life science research community through outreach.

Delivered a dozen presentations to laboratory principle investigators and research assistants on the benefits of Boster antibody products.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
UCLA
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kola-awe-51534585

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Last updated: 2026-03-23