Santeri Puranen
Software Development Manager at Aurlide ltd.
Turku Metropolitan Area Finland
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Top SchoolSanteri Puranen is a software development manager and bioinformatician with eight years of experience building high-performance tools for drug discovery, structural modelling, and population-scale pathogen genomics. He has moved between academia and startups, contributing to cancer receptor modeling, computer-aided drug design, and machine learning–driven genome-wide analyses while leading engineering teams at Aurlide. His work blends statistical mechanics and ML with practical software engineering, producing research-grade tools that accelerate biologically and medically relevant discovery. Santeri pairs a PhD in biochemistry with hands-on postdoctoral and research roles across European universities, giving him deep domain knowledge alongside production-focused development skills. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex computational biology problems into scalable, maintainable software—often surfacing novel methodological insights along the way. Based in the Turku metropolitan area, he brings a rare combination of academic rigor and startup execution to drug-discovery engineering challenges.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Biochemistry, PhD Biochemistry at Åbo Akademi University
Finnish, Swedish, English
Github Skills (14)
bioinformatics10
conda10
mutual-information10
package-management10
pressure10
bioconda9
genomics8
categorical8
rdkit8
cheminformatics8
python8
categorical-data7
data-structure5
api3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
santeripuranen/apegrunt
Aug 2017 - Aug 2021
Apegrunt is a library that implements a space-efficient deduplicated data structure for storing and handling aligned sets of categorical data.
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years
storingcategorical-datahandlingcategoricaldata-structure
santeripuranen/SuperDCA
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:78 commits, 54 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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