Pavel Yakovlev
VP Of Research & Early Development at BIOCAD
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Top SchoolPavel Yakovlev is a computational biologist and VP of Research & Early Development with 12 years of experience building and leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver production-grade bioinformatics and drug-design software. At BIOCAD he scaled a computational biology department to 30+ specialists, shipped GPU-accelerated algorithms for docking and NGS, and led adoption of Haskell for robust, high-performance tooling across antibody, gene therapy and small-molecule programs. He pairs a PhD-level command of bioinformatics and applied mathematics with hands-on engineering in Scala, Python, CUDA and functional programming, favoring type-safe designs and provable approaches. A seasoned mentor with over five years of teaching and student supervision, he has a track record of turning theoretical methods—free energy calculations, PK/PD modeling, retrosynthesis prediction—into production services for drug discovery. Less obvious: he began as the company’s first bioinformatician and retained a unique blend of low-level systems thinking (VMs, GPGPU) and high-level biological insight that accelerates translational research.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
school-leaver, Mathematics, school-leaver, Mathematics at St. Petersburg Lyceum 30Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 5.0, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 5.0 at St. Petersburg State Polytechnical UniversityPhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, 5.0, PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, 5.0 at St. Petersburg University of Russian Academy of Sciences
Русский, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (120)
haskell10
hackage10
neo4j10
neo4j-driver10
driver10
web-application9
vim-plugin9
nfc9
julia8
computational-biology8
parser8
vim8
firmware8
neovim8
neovim-plugin8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
zmactep/ProtParam.jl
Aug 2016 - Sep 2022
ExPASy tool clone written on Julia
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
julia
lambda-llama/icfpc2013
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:102 commits in 3 days
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