Samo Turk - Lead Data Scientist

Samo Turk

Lead Data Scientist

Hamburg, Germany

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Samo Turk is a Lead Data Scientist with 13 years of experience applying ML and cheminformatics expertise across life sciences, aerospace, and legal/NLP projects, now driving data initiatives at Lufthansa Technik. He combines deep research roots (PhD-level pharmaceutical sciences and prior postdoc work) with hands-on MLOps leadership—building Kubeflow platforms, deploying cloud-native solutions, and architecting Kubernetes-first production stacks. A Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer and expert Python/Kubernetes practitioner, he focuses on turning models into business impact using managed cloud services and tested, production-ready code. Samo also hires and mentors data science teams, and contributes to notable open-source projects like RDKit, enhancing cheminformatics tooling for molecular data workflows. Notably, his background blends wet-lab drug discovery intuition with scalable ML operations, enabling uncommon domain-technical crossovers.

13 years of coding experience

11 years of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Pharmaceutical Sciences at Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana

Slovenian, English, German

Github Skills (11)

smile10

dataframes10

pandas10

smil10

rdkit10

python10

cheminformatics10

dataframe10

xlsx9

c-language3

cprogramming-language3

Programming languages (4)

ShellHTMLJupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

rdkit/rdkit

Nov 2013 - Sep 2015

The official sources for the RDKit library

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year 10 months

Contributions summary:Samo primarily contributed to the `rdkit/rdkit` repository by enhancing the `PandasTools` module. They implemented new functionalities for handling and manipulating molecular data within Pandas DataFrames, including options for isomeric SMILES in SDF loading and SMILES saving. The user also added a feature to save dataframes in the XLSX format with embedded images of molecules.

cheminformaticsrdkitpythonc-plus-plussources

samoturk/cheminf-notebooks

Aug 2014 - Nov 2017

Contributions:25 commits, 15 pushes in 3 years 3 months

cheminformaticspythonjupyter-notebooknotebooksjupyter

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