Sebastian Dobrincu
Founder at Imperiul Leilor
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolSebastian Dobrincu is a Los Angeles–based founder, investor and software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-led startups across AI, music tech, e‑commerce and virtual production. As co-founder of Revocalize.ai he blends machine learning and audio engineering to deliver studio-quality synthetic vocals used by thousands of producers, while his track record includes bootstrapped exits like Storyheap and global platforms such as Shop.io and Scento. He runs Stage Ventures as a self-funded seed partner, is the youngest investor on the global Shark Tank franchise, and regularly deploys personal capital into early-stage teams. A lifelong coder who shipped iOS libraries adopted broadly and contributed open-source tooling early enough to draw invites from Apple and Facebook, he pairs hands-on engineering with product vision and international expansion experience. Outside engineering and investing he writes songs, speaks publicly, and leads an NGO applying AI to combat cyberbullying—demonstrating a mix of technical depth, creative drive and social purpose.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at International Computer High School of BucharestComputer Science, Computer Science at New York Institute of TechnologyArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
English, Romanian, French
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Github Skills (19)
objective-c10
ios10
mobile-development10
imageio10
cocoa10
avfoundation10
swift10
uikit10
gif9
uinavigationcontroller9
uitextfield9
spritekit6
will-paginate6
cocoa-touch6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NSRare/NSGIF
Aug 2015 - Mar 2017
🔮 iOS Library for converting videos to animated GIFs.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:47 commits, 9 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian's contributions center around developing an iOS library for converting videos to animated GIFs, as evidenced by the code. The primary focus is on implementing the core functionality of video-to-GIF conversion using `AVFoundation` for video processing and `ImageIO` for GIF creation. The user also designed and implemented a simple UI to trigger the video conversion process within an iOS application, including an example in an app delegate.
apngobjective-cios-libraryanimatedgifs
sebyddd/SDVersion
Sep 2014 - Nov 2017
:iphone: Lightweight Cocoa library for detecting the running device's model and screen size.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:8 releases, 130 commits, 27 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to a lightweight iOS Cocoa library. Their initial work involved creating the core files for detecting the device's model and screen size. They added a podspec file for easy integration and a demo project showcasing the library's functionality. Later commits extended device support with iPad versions, added landscape support, improved stability, and included the device name method, along with bug fixes and version updates.
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