Summary
Sean Hastings is a research scientist and machine learning engineer with a decade of experience building end-to-end AI systems and deploying them into production, most recently at Preply. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Brown University and has delivered impactful computer vision and multimodal pipelines for organizations including the United Nations IIIM and Benetech, driving measurable downstream efficiency gains. Sean’s expertise spans data engineering, model design, and MLOps using Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Docker and distributed training, with hands-on experience integrating models into existing workflows. He’s worked across small, interdisciplinary teams and safety-critical domains—automating bug detection and code safety for embedded systems at VECTOR North America—demonstrating both research rigor and production pragmatism. Notably, his academic work on re-targetable visuomotor control has been cited in the field, reflecting a sustained focus on connecting novel research to real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Brown University