Sebastian Suarez
Co-Founder And CTO at Emilia
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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Top SchoolSebastian Suarez is a founder and hands-on CTO with ~10 years of documented startup leadership and a 15-year history building teams around Linux and open source to democratize real-time communication and AI tools. He co-founded multiple ventures (Emilia, WunderComm, ArtisanLabs, RisePal) and scaled open-source products to meaningful ARR while leading architecture, SRE, and product engineering across cloud-native stacks (Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform) and ML tooling (LangChain, pgvector). Known for quickly evaluating and integrating nascent open-source technologies, he blends systems thinking with creativity to deliver voice-first, cost-efficient generative AI experiences and conversational platforms. Active in open-source community building (Vocode) and edge/real-time systems, he pairs strategic leadership with day-to-day engineering—often shipping the prototypes he then operationalizes. Based in Medellín, Colombia, he brings a generalist CTO mindset shaped by long-term involvement in the local Linux movement and a track record of turning experimental tech into revenue-generating products.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Telecommunications Engineering, Engineer's degree Telecommunications Engineering at Universidad Santo Tomás
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
sapianco/slack-matrix-migration
Aug 2021 - Feb 2023
Migrates Users, Channels and all the conversations from a Slack export to Matrix
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 2 PRs in 1 year 5 months
pythonexportdockerconversationsslack
arpagon/assignaments
Jan 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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