John Cesarek

Senior Director of Automation Engineering at Cellares

📍 Redwood City, California, United States

John Cesarek is the Senior Director of Automation Engineering at Cellares, where he leads the design and implementation of automation for the companys cell therapy manufacturing platform. His extensive career in biotechnology includes leadership roles at insitro, Zymergen, and Five Prime Therapeutics. He earned a Master of Engineering from Penn State University.

John has spoken at industry conferences on topics such as scaling digital and robotic change within R&D organizations.

He is the named inventor on multiple patents for innovations in automation, including systems for electroporation and methods for automated analysis of fluid samples from cell processing systems.

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Experience

28 Years

Current Role

Senior Director of Automation Engineering

Job Level

Senior

Location

Redwood City, California, United States

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Priorities

Topics John cares about

Cell Therapy Automation

Leads the automation engineering group at Cellares, focusing on the design and development of cell therapy manufacturing platforms.

Robotics in R&D

Is a frequent speaker at industry events on organizational frameworks for scaling digital and robotic transformation in complex R&D environments.

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Career

Work history

4-2024

Senior Director of Automation Engineering

Cellares

2-2022 - 4-2024

Director of Automation Engineering

Cellares

8-2018 - 2-2022

Head of Process Engineering

insitro

3-2014 - 8-2018

Director

Zymergen, Inc.

10-2008 - 3-2014

Staff Automation Engineer

Five Prime Therapeutics

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Education

Master of Engineering (MEng)

Penn State University

Southern Connecticut State University

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