Emlyn Clay is a Director of Software Engineering and entrepreneur with 12 years building full-stack web platforms and leading engineering teams across startups in London. He blends hands-on Python, JavaScript and SQL development with pragmatic product-minded leadership, having scaled APIs, data pipelines and web apps from prototype to production. Emlyn pairs technical depth—experience in languages from Go to C++ and a PhD in pharmacology—with domain focus in biotech, medtech and healthcare consulting through his long-running OpenVivo ventures. He has a track record of turning noisy data into customer-facing features (notably scaling a Node/TypeScript API through a 5x user surge) and enjoys assembling teams and operational processes that keep product delivery predictable. A practical problem-solver, he favors simple, auditable solutions that bridge research-grade experiments and regulated clinical or commercial products.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School, Secondary School at Newport Free Grammar School
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Pharmacology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Pharmacology at King's College London
Contributions:33 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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Emlyn Clay - Director Software Engineering at Xyme