Staffan Piledahl
Lab Automation Consultant
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStaffan Piledahl is a lab automation consultant and founder with 11 years of engineering experience building and scaling automated wet-lab platforms for fast-growing biotech startups. He combines hands-on embedded and software engineering roots with deep operational leadership, having led the creation of an automation team, an MVP platform, and a cross-functional Platform Team at LabGenius. Staffan is skilled at aligning technical, scientific and commercial priorities—running capex strategies, supplier negotiations, hiring and org change—to ensure automation investments deliver measurable business value. He also co-founded two startups and consults to early-stage companies from his London base, bringing a pragmatic maker’s mentality to strategy. Comfortable moving between the lab bench and code, he’s known for turning engineers into hybrids who can co-optimize science, automation and operations. A former agile leader at Volvo, he blends discipline in embedded systems with creative, outcome-focused problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Minnesota State University, MankatoMathematics, Mathematics at Malmö UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechatronics Engineering at Halmstad University
English, German, Norwegian, Swedish
Github Skills (13)
excel9
jstree9
pivot-tables9
google-sheets9
openxml8
spreadsheet8
gantt-chart8
conditional-formatting7
xlsx7
javascript7
canvas6
linux1
python1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
staefy/virtual_lablinx
Feb 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes in 4 months
MrManhattan/touchy
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 20 pushes in 3 months
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