Iván Toro
Founder & Co-CEO at Zylon
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolIván Toro is a founder and software leader with 11 years of experience building mobile-first products and AI-driven platforms, currently serving as Co-CEO of Zylon in Madrid. He transitioned from hands-on Android architect and engineering lead roles at companies like bq and Ontruck to CTO and now startup leadership, blending product instincts with deep technical execution. Iván is the creator of PrivateGPT and a core contributor to the zylon-ai/private-gpt project, delivering privacy-first document interaction via local LLM wrappers and vector search integrations. His background in telecommunications engineering and early R&D roles reflects a strong systems mindset and a proven ability to ship secure, scalable solutions for regulated environments. Known for turning research prototypes into production-grade software, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with full-stack development chops.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Máster Universitario en Ingeniería de Redes y Servicios Telemáticos Telecomunicaciones redes servicios telemática., Máster Universitario en Ingeniería de Redes y Servicios Telemáticos Telecomunicaciones redes servicios telemática. at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, German
Github Skills (6)
huggingface-transformers10
python10
langchain10
chromadb9
llama-index9
vector-database8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zylon-ai/private-gpt
May 2023 - Nov 2024
Interact with your documents using the power of GPT, 100% privately, no data leaks
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:300 reviews, 255 PRs, 231 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Iván appears to have been involved in building the core functionality of the privateGPT project. They implemented the initial version of the GPT4All-J wrapper and integrated it within the project. Further contributions include restructuring the code, including the integration of sentence-transformers, adding support for additional document loaders to expand the range of supported file types, and refactoring code to improve code quality and to support future feature additions.
imartinez/SpaceMaterial
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 47 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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