Shaoxian Sun
Executive Director at Schrödinger
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShaoxian Sun is an accomplished scientific leader and Executive Director with 12+ years steering drug discovery and development programs in Oncology and Immuno-Oncology. He has progressed multidisciplinary teams from target validation through clinical candidate selection and early clinical planning, blending deep hands-on expertise in assay development, in vitro/in vivo pharmacology and biomarker discovery with pragmatic project leadership. His career spans major pharma and biotech environments (Pfizer, Regeneron, Schrödinger), where he has managed translational biomarker programs, human genetic studies and complex external collaborations with academics, CROs and international consortia. Known for operating effectively in matrix organizations, he pairs strategic vision with the technical rigor of a PhD-trained biochemist. Outside pharma, he contributes to open-source build tooling—helping improve cross-platform library builds in the JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil ecosystem—highlighting an uncommon mix of wet-lab leadership and software/DevOps fluency. Based in New York, he is adept at translating academic discoveries into clinical strategies and scalable translational platforms.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Github Skills (14)
automation10
build-system10
automations10
cross-compiling10
pbuilder10
crossbuild10
cicd10
julia10
linux9
nodejs9
macos8
windows8
tesseract7
git6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Collection of builder repositories for BinaryBuilder.jl
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:8 reviews, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Shaoxian's contributions primarily revolve around building and integrating external libraries within the Julia-based build system. They focused on creating recipes for building several versions of libnode and libjlnode, including building for Windows and macOS. The user also upgraded the Tesseract build and added brotli support. These contributions show a focus on cross-platform compatibility and dependency management, alongside the integration of supporting libraries for the project.
repositoriesbinarybuildermonorepobuilderjulia
JuliaRandom/Random123.jl
Feb 2019 - Jul 2022
Julia implementation of Random123.
Contributions:6 releases, 5 reviews, 38 commits in 3 years 6 months
random123julia
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