Aaron Rivera
Co-Founder, CTO at BuildCognition
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Rivera is a seasoned software leader and serial technical co-founder with 13 years of experience building production AI, cloud, and real-time visualization systems. As CTO of BuildCognition and previous co-founder roles at Xandria AI and Guidekick, he has delivered document-AI, RAG search, and Unity-based 3D mapping solutions deployed at scale for enterprises and museums. He blends hands-on engineering—from fine-tuning DONUT/LayoutLM models and deploying on SageMaker to C++ geometry processors and Postgres-backed microservices—with product-minded architecture and domain-driven design. Aaron has shipped consumer-facing apps and SDKs reaching millions and has a knack for turning complex spatial and document problems into reliable, automated pipelines. Based in Oakland, he pairs an MS in Computational Perception & Robotics with practical experience across AWS, ELK, Unity, and cross-functional teams. Less obvious: he repeatedly moves between deep research-driven ML work and pragmatic engineering to get models and visualization tech into production.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoMaster of Science - MS, Computational Perception & Robotics, Master of Science - MS, Computational Perception & Robotics at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Ambiarc/Feedback-Tracker
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 3 pushes in 5 months
Ambiarc/Ambiarc-Map-Manager
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 56 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
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