William Lees
Co-Founder And CIO at Freelance
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Lees is a seasoned technology leader and researcher with over a decade of experience spanning academia and industry, currently serving as Co-Founder and CIO of ClareoBio while consulting as a freelance scientific adviser. His background blends deep research credentials—postdoctoral work at Birkbeck, Bar-Ilan and University of Louisville—with hands-on entrepreneurial experience founding Virtual Clarity and earlier technology leadership roles at UBS and Logica. William bridges rigorous research methods and product-minded engineering to shepherd bioinformatics and scientific software from concept to deployment. Based in England, he combines strategic IT architecture with practical delivery skills honed since the 1980s, and maintains an active presence in federated social networks (mastodon: @williamlees@ioc.exchange), hinting at an interest in decentralized communication and open collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
MA, MA at University of OxfordDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Birkbeck, U. of LondonMRes, MRes at Birkbeck, University of London
Github Skills (18)
energy9
dynamics9
database8
e-mail8
seafile7
python7
javascript4
simulation4
docker-image3
statistics3
pdf-generation3
qnap2
inference2
rest-api2
sequencing2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
williamdlees/digger
Apr 2023 - Jan 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 82 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
williamdlees/digby_backend
Feb 2020 - Oct 2025
Contributions:6 PRs, 396 pushes, 12 branches in 5 years 9 months
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