Valery Tkachenko
President at Science Data Software, LLC
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolValery Tkachenko is a veteran cheminformatics leader and entrepreneur with over 25 years building enterprise scientific data platforms, including key contributions to PubChem and as a founder of ChemSpider, a free-access chemistry search engine later acquired by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He combines deep domain expertise from a chemistry master's at Lomonosov Moscow State University with hands-on engineering and product leadership—serving as CTO/Head of eScience at RSC and now president of Science Data Software and Science Data Experts. His work spans open science, semantic web projects like Open PHACTS, and commercialization efforts such as PharmaSea, reflecting a rare ability to bridge public-domain data, research collaborations, and startup productization. An author of 50+ peer-reviewed works, he applies data science and AI to practical chemical and biological problems, bringing both technical rigor and entrepreneurial drive to scientific data management.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Plasma and High-Temperature Physics, Diploma, Plasma and High-Temperature Physics at International Laser CenterMaster's degree, Chemistry, Master's degree, Chemistry at Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian, English
Github Skills (1)
metal2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
openphacts/ops-crs
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
GlyGen/glygen
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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