Michael Pesavento
Founder CEO at PezTek Consulting
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Pesavento is a founder and CEO with 11 years of experience blending neuroscience, computational biology, and applied machine learning to build practical AI products. He has translated deep academic expertise—PhD-level neurobiology and years of hands-on electrophysiology, microscopy, and volumetric image analysis—into commercial systems for biosensing, clinical imaging, and wearable mental health. Michael has a track record of shipping production computer vision and signal-processing pipelines at startups and enterprises (3Scan, Cruise, AWS, Aspen Neuroscience) and now leads WellAware AI, an adaptive wellness platform that fuses wearable and calendar data. He pairs systems-level product thinking with low-level embedded and biosignal experience, making him comfortable from microcontrollers to cloud-scale ML. Colleagues describe him as an autodidact who excels at turning complex scientific problems into understandable, deployable insights.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Neurobiology & Anatomy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Neurobiology & Anatomy at University of RochesterUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (67)
backend9
facebook-events8
datasets8
annotations8
semantic-segmentation8
package-management7
conda-build7
label-studio7
labeling7
mamba7
python7
computer-vision7
java7
conda7
signal7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mpesavento/arg-mine
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
Uses the ArgumentText API to mine arguments from selected data sources. A part of the Great American Debate project https://www.greatamericandebate.org/
Contributions:118 commits, 20 PRs, 107 pushes in 2 years 1 month
apipythondata-sourcesgreatdebate
DrBrainlove/DBL_LEDcontrol
May 2015 - Jun 2020
The control software for Dr Brainlove
Contributions:73 commits, 2 PRs, 62 pushes in 5 years 2 months
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