Stephen Walker
Advisory Board Member at Turing Biosystems
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStephen Walker is an experienced drug discovery and clinical development leader with 11+ years in senior R&D roles and a PhD in Virology from Cambridge, now serving on the advisory board of Turing Biosystems. He has led complex global oncology and infectious disease programs across biotech, big pharma and academia, combining hands-on project delivery with strategic portfolio and outsourcing leadership. Known for building operational excellence and cross-boundary alliances, he has driven clinical biomarker portfolios and outsourcing capabilities that accelerated trial delivery. Stephen also brings practical technical contribution experience, having added Java methods and tests to the widely used open-source RDKit cheminformatics library, reflecting a rare blend of scientific rigor and software/QA engagement. A practiced coach and change agent, he excels at stakeholder management and continuous improvement to de-risk ambitious R&D programs. Colleagues describe him as a delivery-focused strategist who translates high-level vision into measurable project outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Virology, PhD Virology at University of CambridgeBsc Microbiology, Bsc Microbiology at University of ReadingHills Road Sixth form
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Github Skills (21)
unit-testing10
c-language10
rdkit10
java10
javas10
cheminformatics10
cprogramming-language10
python9
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms8
algorithm8
eclipse6
iterator6
rows6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rdkit/rdkit
Nov 2016 - Feb 2022
The official sources for the RDKit library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 54 comments in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Stephen contributed to the RDKit library by adding new methods and test cases to the Java wrappers, specifically focusing on molecule alignment, ring analysis, and atom ranking functionalities. They implemented Java-based tests to validate the functionality of newly added methods, ensuring their correct integration with the existing codebase. Furthermore, the user added and tested a new atom comparator in the FMCS code, expanding the capabilities of the library. They also added a method to access exception messages.
cheminformaticsrdkitpythonc-plus-plussources
vernalis/vernalis-knime-nodes
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
This repository is the source code for the Vernalis KNIME community contribution.
Contributions:124 commits, 4 PRs, 191 pushes in 2 years 4 months
knime
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