David Mcclymont
Director (Automation Platforms)
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Mcclymont is a director-level automation leader with a PhD in Molecular Pharmacology and over a decade of experience building and scaling robotics-driven biotechnology platforms that fuse LIMS, custom software, and advanced analysis pipelines. He has led automation strategy and implementation across industry and academia—most recently heading Automation Platforms at GSK after driving global screening and legacy replacement programs at Revvity and Horizon Discovery. David combines hands-on software and database development (Python, Flask, PostgreSQL) with lab automation expertise (Labcyte, Hamilton, CyBio) to deliver reproducible, high-throughput gene-editing and screening workflows. Known for bridging bench and cloud, he has designed bespoke AI image-analysis and bioinformatics tools and shaped data models in platforms like Benchling to make lab data actionable at scale. Based in Stony Stratford, he brings cross-functional leadership and a practical scientist’s eye for automation that reduces cycle time while increasing experimental capacity.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Molecular Pharmacology, PhD Molecular Pharmacology at University of Nottingham
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (12)
pure-python9
flask8
python8
infrastructure7
open-source6
synthetic6
bioinformatics5
variational-autoencoder4
autoencoder4
unstructured2
deep-learning2
data-science1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
charlestondance/Hamilton-Hitpick
Aug 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
charlestondance/FlaskStartUp
Mar 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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