Santeri Puranen
Software Development Manager at Aurlide ltd.
Turku Metropolitan Area Finland
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Top SchoolSanteri Puranen is a software development manager and bioinformatician with eight years of experience building high-performance tools for drug discovery, structural modelling, and population-scale pathogen genomics. He has moved between academia and startups, contributing to cancer receptor modeling, computer-aided drug design, and machine learning–driven genome-wide analyses while leading engineering teams at Aurlide. His work blends statistical mechanics and ML with practical software engineering, producing research-grade tools that accelerate biologically and medically relevant discovery. Santeri pairs a PhD in biochemistry with hands-on postdoctoral and research roles across European universities, giving him deep domain knowledge alongside production-focused development skills. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex computational biology problems into scalable, maintainable software—often surfacing novel methodological insights along the way. Based in the Turku metropolitan area, he brings a rare combination of academic rigor and startup execution to drug-discovery engineering challenges.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Biochemistry, PhD Biochemistry at Åbo Akademi University
Finnish, Swedish, English
Github Skills (12)
bioinformatics10
mutual-information10
package-management9
conda9
rdkit8
bioconda8
cheminformatics8
python7
categorical-data7
data-structure4
3d3
qtquick2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
santeripuranen/SpydrPick
May 2018 - Apr 2022
SpydrPick: mutual information based detection of pairs of genomic loci co-evolving under a shared selective pressure.
Contributions:123 commits, 2 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 years 11 months
mutual-information
santeripuranen/SuperDCA
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:78 commits, 54 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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