Sebastian Peralta
Founder at Mbodi AI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Peralta is a robotics and deep learning entrepreneur with eight years of experience building production-grade AI systems and developer-led startups. As Co-Founder and CEO of Mbodi AI and former Co-Founder/CTO of Swiing, he has shipped scalable backends, consumer-facing iOS apps, and large-scale recommendation engines that let users tune personalized experiences. Prior roles at Google involved backend and frontend engineering for one of the planet’s largest DNS resolvers and high-throughput analytics pipelines processing billions of records daily, reflecting strong systems and data engineering chops. His academic work at the University of Pennsylvania blends theoretical deep learning—using information-theoretic and statistical physics techniques—with hands-on robotics and teaching, bridging research and real-world deployment. Based in New York, he combines product leadership with a practitioner’s fluency across ML research, distributed systems, and applied robotics. A subtle throughline in his career is turning rigorous theory into elegant, maintainable software that scales.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Robotics, Master of Engineering - MEng Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (93)
speech10
nlp10
predict10
retrieval10
robotics9
multimodal9
multiclass-classification9
computer-vision9
datasets9
windows9
ros9
firebase9
gazebosim9
evaluation9
robot9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sebbyjp/RT-X
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024
Pytorch implementation of the models RT-1-X and RT-2-X from the paper: "Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models"
Contributions:194 pushes, 14 branches in 3 months
sebbyjp/robo_transformers
Dec 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:48 PRs, 69 pushes, 54 branches in 7 months
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