Summary
George Lugo is a founder and seasoned software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack and AI-driven systems, currently leading Yield Delta Core—an autonomous, ML/RL-powered liquidity optimization protocol tailored for SEI’s 400ms-finality blockchain. He blends deep technical breadth (PHP, Ruby on Rails, Go, Rust, Solidity, TypeScript, Next.js/React) with applied AI/ML techniques—LSTMs, random forests, genetic algorithms and RL—to tackle a $50B+ DeFi impermanent loss problem. Previously he shipped production web and mobile apps, serverless backends, and infrastructure work across startups and enterprises, and founded FRANK Robotics, a provocative deep-tech effort to prevent suicide using embodied emotional AI. Comfortable toggling between low-level engineering and product vision, he leverages a neuroscience background from Penn State to inform human-centered AI design. Based in Los Angeles, he combines fast-paced startup execution with a penchant for bold, mission-driven projects that mix robotics, financial systems, and scalable web platforms. An underrated strength is his consistent pattern of turning interdisciplinary ideas into prototypes that bridge research-grade ML with production constraints.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) General Science (Neuroscience) Economics (drop out), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) General Science (Neuroscience) Economics (drop out) at Penn State University
English, Spanish