Erand Smakaj
Senior Data Scientist
Greater Houston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErand Smakaj is a Senior Data Scientist with 11 years of experience bridging computational biology, bioinformatics, and software engineering across academic and industry settings. Currently at Bayer, he applies an experimental, design-minded approach to data science—grounded in an ETH Zürich MS in Computational Biology and a dual BA in Computer Science and Information Systems—to deliver reproducible, production-ready solutions. His background includes roles as a computational scientist in medical research and full-stack development, giving him rare fluency from low-level implementation to high-level modeling. Colleagues describe his work as equal parts rigorous observation and creative vision, a perspective that drives novel ways to translate biological complexity into scalable analytics. Based in Greater Houston, he brings a steady record of cross-disciplinary collaboration and an affinity for modeling systems at both macro and microscopic scales.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Master of Science - MS, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at ETH ZürichBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, (cum laude), Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, (cum laude) at American University in Bulgaria
Italian, Albanian, French, Bulgarian, German, English
Github Skills (73)
custom-view10
calendar-view10
zinnia9
backend9
calendars9
rest-api8
relay8
expressjs8
parse8
mongodb8
android-library8
nodejs8
crosswalk7
notification-api7
youtube7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
3rand/benchmarking-platform
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 11 months
aihealthlab/imnet
Jan 2020 - May 2020
imNet: a Sequence Network Construction Toolkit
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
sequence
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