Sebastian T
Full Stack Engineer at MindsDB
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Tobon is a versatile full-stack engineer and co-founder with 11 years of experience building web and cloud-native products from startups to open-source AI platforms. Based in Medellín, he has led product and technical efforts—designing a SQL editor and integrating forecasting/LLM workflows at MindsDB—while also shaping frontend UX with React and backend/DevOps automation in Python and Node.js. He co-founded agencies and startups (Vokzen, Bookla, MantiCore) where he wore product-owner, architecture and hands-on engineering hats, delivering SPA and mobile experiences across Vue, React Native and microservices on AWS. An active contributor to MindsDB’s repository, he has worked on both backend optimizations and UI/asset integrations for a notable open-source AI project. Sebastian learns by immersion and self-teaching, favoring pragmatic, process-maturing approaches that turn ideas into polished, production-ready products.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero de sistemas, Tecnología informática/Tecnología de sistemas informáticos, Ingeniero de sistemas, Tecnología informática/Tecnología de sistemas informáticos at Institución Universitaria ITMSENA: Servicio Nacional de AprendizajeTecnico en Comunicaciones e Informática, Sistemas de informacion, Tecnico en Comunicaciones e Informática, Sistemas de informacion at Politecnico central
Spanish, English
Github Skills (17)
artificial-intelligence10
back-end-development10
python10
ai10
flask-ask9
apidoc9
api9
flask9
database8
databases8
javascript7
lm6
llm6
react5
ag5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mindsdb/mindsdb
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
AI's query engine - Platform for building AI that can learn and answer questions over large scale federated data.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 14 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on improving the MindsDB platform, which is designed for building AI. They removed validation in the `datasource.py` file, indicating an optimization or refactoring effort. Additionally, the user made changes to `initialize.py` and multiple CSS and other GUI files, involving downloading and integrating static assets. These changes suggest the user also worked on maintaining the application's UI/UX.
localaimachine-learning-databasesolacesinglestoreexplainable-ml
mindsdb/mindsdb_js_sdk
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript SDK for MindsDB
Contributions:9 releases, 13 reviews, 97 commits in 3 years 1 month
mindsdb-js-sdkmindsdbjavascriptmachine-learningsdk
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