Resume

Chief Technology Officer / VP, Technology and Data Science

ArrePath, Inc. · 2021 – Present

Second employee and CTO of a seed-stage ML-enabled antibiotic discovery company. Built agentic AI systems, ML-guided compound design, and scalable AWS data infrastructure. Led a fully-remote technical team integrating wet lab scientists, ML engineers, and platform developers.

• Built agentic AI system orchestrating 30+ ML models and cheminformatics tools via natural language
• Deployed ML-guided workflows where AI-generated compounds matched or exceeded medicinal chemist designs
• Developed first-in-class ML models for oral bioavailability, cytotoxicity, and antibacterial activity
• Architected S3 data lake with >100M compounds and AWS Batch for 40+ job ML pipelines
• Advanced licensed image-based phenotyping to automated 384-well plate screening

Senior Director, Data Science / Director, Data Science

Zymergen, Inc. · 2017 – 2021

Led a 30-person Data Science organization supporting HTS analytics, ML-guided strain and protein design, product-property prediction, and technoeconomic modeling. Reorganized fragmented modeling functions into a unified team with shared standards.

Associate Adjunct Professor / Assistant Adjunct Professor

UCSF, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics · 2008 – 2017

Principal investigator on an R01 grant. Managed a lab developing a novel microfluidics + microscopy assay platform. Inaugural director of the Nikon Imaging Core serving 300 researchers/year.

Research Fellow

Harvard University, Bauer Center for Genomics Research · 2001 – 2006