Sebastien Beal
Founder & CEO at Tachikoma AI
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastien Beal is a founder and CEO with 14 years of hands-on experience building AI-driven products and scalable backend systems, currently leading Tokyo-based Tachikoma AI to automate retail operations with Boutique DX. Trained as a computer scientist and machine learning expert at top French schools, he combines deep technical expertise in indoor positioning, activity recognition, and sensor fusion with proven startup leadership and fundraising experience across Asia and Europe. He previously founded Locarise, launching a platform that fused IoT and real-world data for retail analytics, and has R&D leadership experience at Orange where he led hardware prototyping and cross-functional teams. An active contributor to infrastructure and networking projects—improving gevent-socketio testing and enhancing DevOps tooling—he blends low-level protocol understanding with pragmatic deployment automation. Known for translating sensor-level research into product-grade systems, he thrives at the intersection of research, engineering, and commercial execution.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Master of Science, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at École normale supérieure Paris-SaclayMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Ecole nationale supérieure des TélécommunicationsLycée Janson-de-Sailly
English, French, Japanese, Russian
Github Skills (14)
testing10
unit-testing10
socket-io10
git10
fabric10
socket10
nginx10
fad10
devops10
python10
socket-io-client10
gevent10
cicd9
redis8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
abourget/gevent-socketio
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
Official repository for gevent-socketio
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Sebastien primarily focused on enhancing the `gevent-socketio` library by adding comprehensive tests. Their work involved creating test cases for encoding and decoding packet messages, including disconnect, connect, heartbeat, message, JSON, event, and ack packets. The user also implemented the `encode` and `decode` methods within the `Packet` class, ensuring the library correctly handles different packet types according to the Socket.IO specification. These changes contribute to the stability and reliability of the project.
websocketsocketiogeventsocket-io
fabtools/fabtools
Dec 2012 - Jun 2013
Tools for writing awesome Fabric files
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sebastien primarily contributed to the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the project. Their commits include significant modifications to the Nginx configuration, introducing features for enabling and disabling sites, and refactoring existing code to use service reloading. They also integrated Oracle JDK installation into the build process and enhanced Git operations, demonstrating a strong focus on automation and environment setup. Additionally, they added testing for redis.
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