Summary
Cesar Arze is a Principal Consultant and accomplished computational biologist with 16+ years translating microbiome and virome NGS and multiomic data into therapeutic insights for gene, cell, and oncology programs. He blends hands-on computational analysis, digital infrastructure design, and wet-lab automation to build scalable R&D platforms and lead cross-functional teams from bench to cloud. At Ring Therapeutics he steered genomics efforts that expanded vector catalogs, supported multiple fundraising rounds, and contributed to high-impact publications including Nature Communications and Cell Host & Microbe. Previously he drove large-scale gut microbiome multi-omics pipelines at Harvard, managing thousands of metagenomes/metatranscriptomes and public data releases for the Human Microbiome Project. Based in Boston, he now consults with startups to install robust compute, data, and analysis workflows while still writing “bad-looking” code that makes collaborators’ codebases better. He’s actively seeking opportunities to apply this mix of experimental, computational, and product-minded leadership in gene or cell therapy and oncology teams.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bioinformatics, Biology, Computer Science, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Biology, Computer Science, Biotechnology at Rochester Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS, Analytics, Master of Science - MS, Analytics at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Spanish