Antonio De Perio
Founder at Focal
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolAntonio De Perio is a founder and AI engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML and AI systems for research, enterprise, and logistics. He currently leads Focal, an evidence-first platform that indexes over 200 million open-access papers, while also crafting AI assistants for major brands as a founding engineer at brand.ai. Previously he scaled engineering and product at climate-tech Avarni and served as CTO at Shipz, translating complex domain problems into practical AI-driven workflows. Antonio’s background spans startups to enterprise security and includes open-source work in computer vision and medical diagnostics, reflecting a hands-on approach from prototype to production. Based in Sydney, he combines deep technical execution with a founder’s instinct for product-market fit and a track record of compressing months of analysis into hours via AI.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering Software Engineering at University of Technology Sydney
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Github Skills (180)
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javascript10
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electron10
electron-updater10
drizzle-orm10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
adeperio/base
May 2015 - Jun 2019
A Starter Kit for React+Flux and Express+Postgres
Contributions:492 commits, 3 PRs, 212 pushes in 4 years 1 month
reactexpresspostgresreduxflux
adeperio/ga-mob-melb
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:10 PRs, 28 pushes, 6 comments in 1 month
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