Max Winokan
Advisor - Fragment-based Computational Design
Woking, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Winokan is a computational chemist and advisor specializing in fragment-based lead discovery, currently shaping novel platform tools at Eli Lilly after leading antiviral fragment validation work at Diamond Light Source. With eight years of experience bridging academic and industry settings, he combines a PhD in computational chemistry/physics with hands-on software engineering skills gained at EA and in scientific visualization. He has collaborated with the University of Oxford’s Centre for Medicines Discovery and supervised graduate students, demonstrating both technical depth and mentorship. Comfortable across Python, C++ and GUI/tool development for scientific workflows, he brings a rare mix of drug discovery domain expertise and production-oriented engineering. An interesting through-line in his career is translating complex physical models into accessible visual and computational tools for both research and public audiences.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MPhys Physics, MPhys Physics at University of Surrey
English, German, Dutch, Russian
Github Skills (45)
redux9
backend9
frontend8
django8
react8
syntax-highlighting8
progress-bar8
webpack8
emoji8
restful-api8
markdown7
tui7
docker-compose7
compounds7
parsing6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mwinokan/RichQueue
Oct 2024 - Jan 2026
Contributions:14 releases, 67 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
mwinokan/MShTools
Feb 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:232 commits, 182 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
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