My name is Esteban Carabajal

Leveraging my over a decade of experience in the drug discovery and lab automation space space to build the lab automation infrastructure your organization needs to enhance its efficiency and minimize human error. I thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy teaching others about lab automation.

I’m also looking to partner with vendors and other automation engineers, biologists, chemists, computer scientists, and data scientists to make content for my Substack.

Areas of Expertise

Automation Engineering

  • Protocol review and process mapping

  • Sourcing automation hardware and software tools for your budget

  • Building semi automated and fully autonomous labs

  • Cross collaboration with vendors to build hardware and software integrations

  • Scripting and validating protocols for routine experiments

  • Training scientists to execute and troubleshoot protocols

High Throughput Screening

  • Sourcing biochemical or cellular disease model for target

  • Assay development and optimization with automation

  • Miniaturization of existing assays to 384 or 1536 well formats

Sample Management

  • Establishing LIMS System

  • Automating mundane tasks like de-lidding vials and labelling

  • Building in-house freezer and fridge storage

Various lab protocols

  • See misc services tab for comprehensive list of techniques I have experience automating

  • I can source vendors for things I don’t know how to automate


Recommendations From Coworkers

“…Esteban helped to bring in and establish our automation capabilities and transferred many manual assays into more robust and consistent automated assays with strong data management control. He has consistently worked to improve and learn new skills to advance projects faster. Most impressively, he's a great communicator and fantastic person, which facilitates the science workflow and also improved our company culture through his leadership roles in ERG teams…”

Sarah Ledoux - Associate Director at Vir Biotechnology

“…[Esteban] took the reins in collaborating with our IT department to help automate an end-to-end data pipeline with Tecan Fluents, D300, and iDot machines and LIMS softwares as a Proof of Concept (POC) for a more efficient High-Throughput Screening (HTS) process. His deep expertise in integrating Tetrascience and Benchling platforms played a critical role in enhancing our operational efficiency and data accuracy…”

Rachel Miller - R&D IT Manager at Vir Biotechnology

Get in Touch!

Schedule a free project review meeting to see how I can help!

FAQ

  • There is an interoperability issue in research: scientists cannot replicate data from the literature. Automation helps standardize protocols between operators to increase interoperability and enhance your data pipeline.

  • Click my calendaring link to schedule a chat. From there we can discuss the scope of your project and timeline.

  • Establishing an automation workflow can take 3-6 months and depends on lead times for equipment.

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