Lucas Mantovani
Co-founder, CEO at Fundação Estudar
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLucas Mantovani is a founder and product-minded research engineer with 11 years of experience building multimodal ML systems, real-time rendering infra, and scalable data pipelines. As Co-founder and CEO of Velvet he’s pushing the frontier of multimodal video models after a stint at Meta FAIR where he trained dyadic face diffusion models and shipped 2D/3D rendering work for Seamless Interaction. His background blends cognitive-science research at UChicago—where he built neural nets and interactive experiments—with fast-moving startup and engineering roles that range from building advertiser inbox features to cost-saving cloud tooling. A Fundação Estudar fellow and Y Combinator alum, he pairs academic rigor with operator instincts and a knack for shipping high-impact ML products.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ensino Médio, Ensino Médio at Colégio de Aplicação - CAp-COLUNI - UFVY CombinatorBachelor of Science - B.S Computer Science (Honors), Bachelor of Science - B.S Computer Science (Honors) at University of Chicago
English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (10)
creative-commons6
drawing6
javascript5
generative-art4
react3
rights2
ecology1
machine-learning1
integrations1
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LukeKnutson9/Outfit-Forecast-Frontend
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:104 PRs, 130 pushes, 5 branches in 27 days
zeroknowledgediscovery/polpol
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Political Polarization
Contributions:2 PRs, 102 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
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