Summary
Luca Mcarthur is an AI-focused technology leader and founder with nine years’ experience building applied machine learning products and scaling AI strategy across enterprises. As CEO of Perlon Labs and co-founder/CTO at ODA Colombia, he combines hands-on engineering—spanning Rust, Python, TensorFlow and PyTorch—with executive strategy to turn AI audits into 90-day roadmaps and production deployments. His background includes applied research in speech and computer vision, porting large Python codebases to Rust and managing teams delivering digital humans and intelligent ERP platforms. Trained at the University of Edinburgh (MSc AI) and experienced in both startup and social-impact contexts, he blends technical depth with pragmatic product delivery and responsible AI practices. Notably, he pairs research authorship with practical migration work, showing a rare ability to move models from prototype to performant, production-grade systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Msc Artificial Intelligence, Msc Artificial Intelligence at The University of Edinburgh
English, Spanish