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Luis Villa

@lvilla.bsky.social

Lab Automation Engineer & co-founder of the Bay Area Lab Automators. Background in Genomics from UC Berkeley. Exp in NGS, CLIA, FDA, Clinical, Cell Therapy, Software Dev, and 2x Cat Dad. 🇲🇽🇸🇻 Views are my own.

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Luis Villa@lvilla.bsky.social · last yr.

Celebrated International Lab Automation Day with a 24 hour hackathon at Studio 45 where be built MCP servers for robots and integrated them into agentic workflows. Folks flew in from Boston, Denver, Seattle, Houston and more to come together and build at the edge. #labautomation

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Luis Villa@lvilla.bsky.social · last yr.

SF New Event Alert: Build in public, learn in public, level up as a community. It's never been easier to build and building is without a doubt the best way to learn. if the only constant in our industry is change, how are you making the space & time to keep up with these changes?

Luis Villa@lvilla.bsky.social · last yr.

The number one question I get asked is, "how can I break into automation?" The number two question I get asked is, "how can I make that next leap?" My answer is generally the same, "Come to our hackathons." Why?

Luis Villa@lvilla.bsky.social · last yr.

Unfortunately being heads down as an IC (for some reason VP's & founders still seem to have unlimited time even when they're heads down) means that even within that month or two, you miss out on a lot of research and updates.

Luis Villa@lvilla.bsky.social · last yr.

It's clear when folks aren't familiar with or using the technologies they're hyping. You may have interviewed or spoken with 100 experts to arrive at a conclusion that supported your initial hunch but did you talk to the correct 100 people? I doubt it.

Luis Villa@lvilla.bsky.social · last yr.

I've been hibernating since #SLAS, I've been grinding & pushing through professional & personal deadlines. Lab automation remains a domain that still requires a whimsical and dizzying array of skillsets. Currently using my first "free" day to read through a backlog of papers, blogs and code. 🥂

Luis Villa@lvilla.bsky.social · 2y ago

Always happy to talk about lab automation! I had a lot of fun sitting down for this podcast, thanks for having me @nabilwrites.bsky.social

nabil@nabilwrites.bsky.social · 2y ago

“You sit in between three of the biggest problems in the [biotech] industry.” I love this insight from @lvilla.bsky.social – co-founder of Bay Area Lab Automators – on why a career in biotech lab automation is so compelling. Catch the full conversation here: youtu.be/oT8VnQ_UNNo

Dustin Moskovitz@moskov.goodventures.org · 2y ago

or even "people are actually pretty rational and not that impressionable." All of this seems quite ahistorical and unscientific, even in the context of Meta's own history and own research. Do the ads influence people but not the malicious posts? It doesn't hold water. 5/7

Luis Villa@lvilla.bsky.social · 2y ago

Attending SLAS 2025 in San Diego? Is there an event meetup map? Trying to figure out the optimal date & time for a bootstrapped event. Tag or share if you know anyone!

TechBio Transformers@techbio.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join us for a special meetup! 🧬🤖💙 TechBio Transformers is partnering with Bay Area Lab Automators for an event on Dec 19th in SF at Southern Pacific Brewing. Have questions? Contact our SF regional leads, Adam Ferguson and Jack Morel, on the TBT Slack! lu.ma/urgc9y2e

TBT x BALA San Francisco Meetup · Luma

TechBio Transformers and Bay Area Lab Automators are hosting the final San Francisco meetup of the year! Come hang out with us for drinks and great…

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Luis Villa@lvilla.bsky.social · 2y ago

When I read papers involving automation I cringe at how patently untrue some of the claims seem to be but then I remember that a lot of that is due to the relatively large moat that remains when it comes to knowledge and exp with the overwhelming amount of hardware and software that is available.