Jimmy Sastra is Co-Founder and CEO of Monomer Bio, a software company building next-generation tools for lab automation and cell engineering.
Jimmy has two decades of experience in robotics, applied optimization, and lab automation. As VP of Engineering at Transcriptic (later Strateos), the world’s first biology cloud lab, he led the development of more than 20 automated workcells spanning biological assays, chemistry, and synthetic biology.
Earlier in his career, Jimmy was part of the groundbreaking team at Willow Garage that created the Robot Operating System (ROS)—now used in more than half of the world’s robots. He earned his Ph.D. working on automated parameter optimization in autonomous legged and humanoid robots.
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