Lukas Turcani
Founding Engineer at Edra
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Turcani is a founding engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building backend systems, infrastructure, tooling, and security for research-driven startups. He combines deep academic training—a PhD in AI for porous organic cages—with hands-on engineering in Rust, Python, C++ and distributed systems at companies like Improbable and Imperial College. Lukas has a strong open-source pedigree, notably leading architecture and CI for the stk chemical design library and publishing scientific software used by research groups. His work spans AI, automation and materials discovery, often bridging experimental collaboration and production-grade tooling. Comfortable from low-level performance tuning to cloud infrastructure, he is particularly skilled at turning complex scientific problems into robust, auditable software. You can explore his technical footprint and projects on GitHub (github.com/lukasturcani).
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence for Porous Organic Cages, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence for Porous Organic Cages at Imperial College LondonKuwait English School
English, Slovak, Czech
Github Skills (128)
sphinx-doc10
python10
computational-science10
databases10
computational-chemistry10
polars10
markdown10
chemistry10
cheminformatics10
data-visualization10
database10
sphinx10
rdkit10
mongodb10
debug10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lukasturcani/intermediate_ea
Apr 2020 - Jul 2023
An intermediate example of an stk evolutionary algorithm for molecular design.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
lukasturcani/chem_tools
Oct 2017 - Aug 2019
A collection of tools for dealing with molecules.
Contributions:73 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
molecules
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