Alex Velez-arce
Founder, CEO at Year Zero
El Paso, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Velez-arce is a founder and technical CEO with nine years of experience building deep tech and AI-driven platforms, currently leading ArcellAI to create an agentic data layer for techbio R&D. He blends hands-on engineering and research credibility from a postdoctoral-equivalent role at Harvard Medical School with product and startup execution from co-founding stealth AI ventures and launching roles across major tech firms. Based in San Francisco and MIT-trained in Computer Science and Engineering, he moves fluidly between ML infrastructure, full-stack systems, and biomedical informatics. His background includes strategy and scouting roles at Antler, Techstars, and Emerald, reflecting both investor-facing instincts and operational rigor. Notably, he pairs lab-level AI research experience with practical production delivery—turning complex biological data problems into developer-friendly, agentic tooling. He brings an entrepreneurial, interdisciplinary mindset that accelerates translation of AI research into scalable techbio products.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
IRSF/calculus.house Actioners House, IRSF/calculus.house Actioners House at The ResidencyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science & Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyManagement and Mathematical Economics, Management and Mathematical Economics at MIT Sloan School of ManagementChan-Zuckerberg Fellow Biomedical AI, Chan-Zuckerberg Fellow Biomedical AI at Harvard University
Github Skills (38)
drug-discovery10
biology10
artificial-intelligence10
machine-learning10
multimodal10
datasets10
medicine10
chemistry10
deep-learning10
cheminformatics10
bioinformatics10
python8
pytorch7
application-server7
css7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WorldBank-Transport/CrashAnalysis
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 pushes in 5 years 6 months
mims-harvard/tdc2website-flask
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
flask+nextjs implementation for tdc-2 website
Contributions:25 PRs, 77 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
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