Keith Turner
Manager III, Applied Science, Amazon Special Projects
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeith Turner is a data science leader with 11 years of experience bridging genomics, machine learning, and microbial ecology, now managing Applied Science for Amazon Special Projects in Seattle. He has led small interdisciplinary teams at Bayer and Monsanto to deliver production pipelines and discovery research on plant-beneficial microbes, bringing agile practices and a strong emphasis on professional development. Trained as a microbiologist (PhD, Harvard) with a dual BS in microbiology and computer science, he translates complex biological questions into scalable ML-driven solutions and pragmatic feature engineering. His background includes hands-on metagenomics, trait discovery, and modeling of crop performance, plus grant-writing and mentoring from his postdoc, indicating both scientific rigor and programmatic leadership. Notably, he pairs deep domain expertise in microbial systems with practical software and pipeline development experience dating back to an early bioinformatics internship building Java web tools.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Microbiology, Ph.D., Microbiology at Harvard UniversityB.S., Microbiology, Computer Science, B.S., Microbiology, Computer Science at University of Iowa
Github Skills (24)
ecology9
ggplot9
webextension9
safari8
r8
browser-extension8
nodejs7
data-wrangling7
visualization7
chrome7
firefox7
stable7
cli7
angular7
typescript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Bayer-Group/BadranEtAl2015
Apr 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 9 months
khturner/Tn-seq
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:71 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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