Sebastian Dobrincu
Founder at Imperiul Leilor
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolSebastian Dobrincu is a Los Angeles–based tech entrepreneur, investor and software engineer with over a decade of experience building product-led startups and AI systems. He co-founded Revocalize.ai to commercialize synthetic voice technology for music and entertainment, runs Stage Ventures’ seed investing, and serves as an investor and judge on Romania’s Imperiul Leilor. A self-taught coder who began freelancing at age 10, he has authored open-source iOS libraries like NSGIF and SDVersion and shipped frameworks used at companies including Facebook, Spotify, TikTok and Apple. He dropped out of university to scale and exit Storyheap, then built global payroll and virtual production ventures such as Shop.io and IREAL while leading AI-driven anti-cyberbullying initiatives as president of Asociatia TACI. Known for blending relentless engineering with media-facing roles — and, in his own words, for turning “sleepless nights into art” — he combines product craft, go-to-market grit and a knack for early-stage investing.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at International Computer High School of BucharestComputer Science, Computer Science at New York Institute of TechnologyArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
English, Romanian, French
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Github Skills (19)
objective-c10
ios10
mobile-development10
imageio10
cocoa10
avfoundation10
swift10
uikit10
gif9
uinavigationcontroller9
uitextfield9
spritekit6
will-paginate6
cocoa-touch6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NSRare/NSGIF
Aug 2015 - Mar 2017
🔮 iOS Library for converting videos to animated GIFs.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:47 commits, 9 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian's contributions center around developing an iOS library for converting videos to animated GIFs, as evidenced by the code. The primary focus is on implementing the core functionality of video-to-GIF conversion using `AVFoundation` for video processing and `ImageIO` for GIF creation. The user also designed and implemented a simple UI to trigger the video conversion process within an iOS application, including an example in an app delegate.
apngobjective-cios-libraryanimatedgifs
sebyddd/SDVersion
Sep 2014 - Nov 2017
:iphone: Lightweight Cocoa library for detecting the running device's model and screen size.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:8 releases, 130 commits, 27 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to a lightweight iOS Cocoa library. Their initial work involved creating the core files for detecting the device's model and screen size. They added a podspec file for easy integration and a demo project showcasing the library's functionality. Later commits extended device support with iPad versions, added landscape support, improved stability, and included the device name method, along with bug fixes and version updates.
objective-ciphonetvosscreen-sizeswift
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