Summary
Sergio C is a founder and full-stack engineer with nine years of experience building product-led startups in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently leading t54 Labs while also serving as CEO of rct AI, a Y Combinator-backed company building an AI-driven metaverse on blockchain. He blends hands-on engineering with operational leadership, having run product, software, hardware, supply chain, and go-to-market functions at companies like Raven Tech and Baidu’s Smart Hardware Unit. Early engineering roles at SenseTime and tataUFO gave him product-scale experience—he built a news feed system from zero to millions of users. Sergio’s background bridges deep technical execution and investor-backed entrepreneurship, with experience raising capital from top firms such as Galaxy Interactive and Anthos Capital. He trained in software engineering at Beihang University and sharpened his startup craft at Y Combinator W19. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who moves fluid technical ideas into funded, market-ready products.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Winter 2019 Batch, Entrepreuership, Winter 2019 Batch, Entrepreuership at Y Combinator
Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering at Beihang University
Chinese, English