Chas Nelson
Senior Data Engineer
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChas Nelson is a data and AI leader with 11 years’ experience building research-driven products and teams at the intersection of biotech, medtech and global health. As Data, AI and Research Director at Fjelltopp and former CTO and founder of gliff.ai, he combines hands-on engineering (Python, SQL, TypeScript, React, Azure) with strategic delivery—turning losses into profit, growing revenue 200%, and increasing company valuation 20x. He has managed million-dollar, multi-stakeholder projects with WHO, UNICEF and national governments, led adoption of international data standards across ministries, and contributed to WHO-informed public health policy. Academically rooted with a PhD in Bioimage Informatics, Chas brings deep domain expertise in bioimaging and privacy-preserving ML techniques like federated learning, informed by both published research and applied product work. Based in Glasgow, he uniquely bridges rigorous academic methods and pragmatic productisation for impact-driven health tech.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioimage Informatics (Computing Sciences), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioimage Informatics (Computing Sciences) at Durham University
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
chameleonhub/chameleon-workstation
Dec 2022 - Nov 2024
Desktop application for BAHIS2
Contributions:2 releases, 21 reviews, 52 PRs in 1 year 10 months
desktop-application
gliff-ai/upload
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
gliff.ai UPLOAD – a component for allowing the upload of a variety of image files, including multidimensional TIFFs and DICOMs, for the purposes for machine learning development
Contributions:37 reviews, 41 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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