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César A. Lizárraga

e-mail: calizarr@gmail.com
github: http://github.com/calizarr
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/calizarr

Relevant Experience

• CiBO Technologies (St. Louis, MO): July 2017 - Present
  Engagement Engineering Lead (Project Lead / Software Engineer)
  • Led a small team (4-5 engineers) in custom application development for a strategic partnership client that resulted in a multimillion dollar contract
  • Produced sprint planning and project planning documentation while working with business development and leadership
  • Interfaced multiple times per week with various members of the client team to ensure their needs were met
  • Reduced client research time from months to days using a high level business development and product concept to design and architect an industry leading set of tools
  • Developed several services, APIs, and API clients in Scala and Python from prototype to deployment
• Nanaya (St. Louis, MO): July 2014 - Present
  Co-founder / Infrastructure & Sofware Engineer / Statistician
  • Supported, managed, and updated infrastructure for application averaging 50 users per day and about 300,000 total
  • Migrated original application infrastructure to a container based model
  • Facilitated communication between developers and R&D Team members
  • Managed team member contributions and source code version control
  • Developed, verified, and tested algorithm(s) for application
• Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, MO)
  • October 2016 - July 2017
    Senior Computational Scientist
    • Provided computational interface for research groups
    • Trained lab technicians, research scientists, and graduate students in computational infrastructure use
    • PheNode: Developed prototype of Arduino & Raspberry Pi controlled field canopy sensor system
      • https://www.agrelaeco.com/
    • PhenoPiSight: A Fixed Camera Greenhouse-based Phenotyping platform
  • December 2014 - October 2016
    Laboratory Technician (Bioinformatics/Statistics) in Mockler Lab
    • Developed, documented, maintained, and tested pipelines for analyzing high throughput sequencing and imaging data
    • Analytics, data management, and development for the Brachypodium ENCODE Project and the EPSCoR Project
    • Coordinated with Bioinformatics Core Director for computational resource management
    • Performed data analysis on a routine basis

Public Projects

PhenoPiSight: Fixed Camera Greenhouse-based Phenotyping Platform

• Used Ansible to automate image capture and transfer of images from 180 Raspberry Pis on a gantry above the greenhouse
• Developed pipeline to take captured images and make dense 3D pointcloud reconstructions (+/- 0.5cm accuracy)
• Trained lab technicians to find phenotypes in 3D reconstructions and compare to ground-based greenhouse measurements
• Example of the 3D reconstruction: https://traitcapture.org/pointclouds/by-id/586a428ef7f5667846b1f8a0

Education

B.A. Mathematics, 2008
Probability and Statistics
Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis

Engineering Skills

• In order of familiarity:
  • Languages: Scala, Python, R, SQL, Bash, Java
  • Frameworks: Akka, Django
  • Infrastructure & DevOps: Kubernetes, Argo Workflow Engine, Helm, Ansible, HTCondor
  • Cloud computing: AWS, DigitalOcean
  • Software: GNU Emacs, Git, PostgreSQL, IntelliJ IDEA, NGINX, Travis CI, Jenkins, RabbitMQ

Languages

• Fluent: English, Spanish
• Intermediate: Italian

Publications

• Erica Agnew, Adam Bray, Eric Floro, Nate Ellis, John Gierer, César Lizárraga, Darren O’Brien, Madeline Wiechert, Todd C. Mockler, Nadia Shakoor, Christopher N. Topp. Whole‐Plant Manual and Image‐Based Phenotyping in Controlled Environments. Plant Biology 2(1):1-21. https://doi.org/10.1002/cppb.20044 (2017)
• He Huang, Malia A. Gehan, Sarah E. Huss, Sophie Alvarez, Cesar Lizarraga, Ellen L. Gruebbling, John Gierer, Michael J. Naldrett, Rebecca K. Bindbeutel, Bradley S. Evans, Todd C. Mockler, Dmitri A. Nusinow. Cross‐species complementation reveals conserved functions for EARLY FLOWERING 3 between monocots and dicots. Plant Direct 1:4 https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.18 (2017)
• Gehan MA, Fahlgren N, Abbasi A, Berry JC, Callen ST, Chavez L, Doust AN, Feldman MJ, Gilbert KB, Hodge JG, Hoyer JS, Lin A, Liu S, Lizárraga C, Lorence A, Miller M, Platon E, Tessman M, Sax T. 2017. PlantCV v2: Image analysis software for high-throughput plant phenotyping. PeerJ 5:e4088 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4088
• Laura Rayhel, B.A., Copper Aitken-Palmer, D.V.M., Ph.D., Priscilla Joyner, B.Sc., B.V.M.S., Carolyn Cray, Ph.D., César Andrés Lizárraga, B.A., Betty Ackerman, M.T. (A.S.C.P.), and Chris Crowe, B.S. Hematology and biochemistry in captive white-naped cranes (Grus VIPIO). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 46(4):747-754. http://dx.doi.org/10.1638/2015-0027.1 (2015)

Professional Presentations (Posters)

• Skyler Mitchell, Stuart Marshall, Stephanie Turnipseed, Luke Burnham, César Lizárraga, Jared Streich, Rob Alba, and Todd C. Mockler (2015) “Effect of drought treatments on transpiration rate and stomatal density in Brachypodium distachyon.” Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Missouri Botanical Gardens Joint Fall Symposium, St. Louis, MO, October 2015
• César A. Lizárraga, Henry D. Priest, Noah Fahlgren, Rob Alba, and Todd C. Mockler. Bioinformatics Pipelines for Purple False Brome (Brachypodium distachyon) Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO. (2015)
• Cesar Lizarraga, Stuart Marshall, Bradley Flynn, Nadia Shakoor and Todd C. Mockler. PhenoPiSight: Fixed Camera Greenhouse-based Phenotyping Platform. (2016)