David Alonso
Bloom - Co-Founder & Chief Excitement Officer at Bloom (YC X25)
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Alonso is a founder-focused engineer and entrepreneur with 8 years of experience building robotics-infused research and consumer mobile products from Zurich. As Co-Founder and Chief Excitement Officer of Bloom (YC X25) he’s shipping tools that let anyone build native mobile apps in seconds, and he previously launched complementary startups like Fireview and Giftit that bridge data UX and conversational AI. His background spans hands-on robotics research at ETH Zürich and the University of Zurich—applying deep reinforcement learning and building simulators for autonomous systems—to embedded and control software for aerial and ground vehicles. David combines product instincts with low-level systems skills (C++, ROS, Python) and a track record of turning research prototypes into user-facing platforms. An understated pattern in his career is repeatedly taking academic-grade autonomy work into startup products, making complex robotics and ML techniques accessible in real-world apps.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorResearch Science Institute Astrophysics, Research Science Institute Astrophysics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Robotics Systems and Control, Master of Science - MS Robotics Systems and Control at ETH ZürichBachelor of Science - BS Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Delft University of Technology
Catalan, Spanish, English, Dutch, german (a2.1)
Github Skills (189)
unreal-engine-410
driverless10
firebase10
airsim10
reinforcement-learning10
flutterflow10
lidar10
simulation10
racing10
plugin10
chatgpt9
fuzzy-search9
javascript9
robotics9
memory-management9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
TheFireCo/genkit-plugins
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Community Plugins for Genkit (OpenAI, Groq, Anthropic, Cohere, etc)
Contributions:10 releases, 71 reviews, 22 PRs in 10 months
aicohere-aiembeddersfirebasegenkit
davidoort/aeroacoustics
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:113 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.