Sebastian Calvo
Lead Engineer & Designer at ForgeGrove Engineering & Design
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSebastian Calvo is a lead engineer and designer with nine years of hands-on experience developing sustainable technologies across renewable energy, aerospace, and environmental instrumentation. He has led mechanical design and DFM for manufacturable prototypes—from automated satellite antenna control units to full-scale rooftop wind prototypes—and supported LIDAR instrument development and testing for high-altitude atmospheric campaigns. Comfortable bridging simulation and hardware, he has run hundreds of CFD and FEA analyses and overseen vibrational, thermal, and vacuum testing for flight-like systems. Currently founding and leading engineering efforts at ForgeGrove, he focuses on materials development, underwater robotics, and renewable energy systems that prioritize real-world deployability. Pursuing advanced study at Oxford after graduate work in engineering design, he blends academic rigor with startup-style productization. Unusually for someone at his stage, he pairs deep experimental test experience with an end-to-end perspective from simulation to manufacturable production.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Engineering Design, Master's degree, Engineering Design at Brown UniversityMaster's degree, Engineering Design, Master's degree, Engineering Design at Rhode Island School of DesignDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Science at University of OxfordBachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringMAST Academy
spanish, english
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Github Skills (25)
html6
sqlalchemy6
visual-studio6
ipython6
text-formatting6
google-app-engine6
python6
jinja26
json6
jupyter6
data-science5
notebook5
stylegan4
deep-learning3
artificial-intelligence3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thinktwise/hipoint
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
Yawas Web and PDF Highlighter browser extension for Chrome and Firefox
Contributions:45 commits, 36 pushes in 1 month
browser-extensionchromefirefoxpdf
sscalvo/flask_modelo182
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Web GUI added to jupyter_modelo182 using flask and pyinstaller
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
pythonweb-guijupyter-notebookflaskgui
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