Max Koko — HTGAA Spring 2026
About me
Hi, I am Max, a hacker aspiring to be a biohacker. In my early 20s, I started a hackerspace in Poland, and quickly moved to London to work in infrastructure and cybersecurity in various industries as a contractor. Finance, Telco, Crypto: after a few years of working on seriously sounding critical infrastructure projects, I got bored and moved to Cambridge. I always wanted to do bio, but tech was a better career choice at the time.
Since then, I’ve worked at the Sanger Institute, done an undergraduate certificate in genetics at Cambridge, studied genomic medicine at King’s College, and organised the biggest biohackathon.xyz in the UK (maybe outside of the UK as well) with over 115k non-dilutive funding as awards. I have some solid basics in genomics and bioinformatics now, but I still want to learn wet lab.
I’ve also been running a biobank on the side, combining my cybersecurity infrastructure with a newly acquired bio skill set. Using GDPR and HIPAA laws to access anyone’s data anywhere. Let me know if you plan to build a cohort dataset and need help getting the data.