Ark Biotech
Leading software engineering for the infrastructure, applications, simulation tooling, and AI systems behind next-generation biomanufacturing.
Software engineer / founder / product builder
Robert Seares
I build companies, software, and systems.
I am a software engineer, engineering leader, founder, and product builder currently living in Brazil with my wife and two children. Over the last decade I have worked across startups, AI, biotech, consumer products, infrastructure, and automation, always gravitating toward difficult technical problems where software can create outsized leverage.
10+years building software
AI + Biocurrent frontier
Brazilhome base
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What I do
Engineering work for hard, useful problems.
Today I lead software engineering at Ark Biotech, where I help build the infrastructure, applications, simulation tooling, and AI systems powering next-generation biomanufacturing.
My work spans cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, simulation systems, machine learning applications, frontend architecture, backend services, and engineering leadership.
PlanetPlay and ventures
Led innovation initiatives, founded software companies, and helped startups turn rough ideas into production systems.
Useful leverage
Drawn to hard technical problems where a small team, the right abstractions, and relentless execution can change the shape of a business.
The question
How do we make it dramatically easier for people to build useful things?
That question has led me through projects ranging from AI systems and developer platforms to restaurant software, biotechnology infrastructure, and AI agents.
Operating range
From proof of concept to production business.
I enjoy building systems that scale from a single user to thousands. My preferred stack is Python, TypeScript, Kubernetes, FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, cloud-native infrastructure, and AI-powered workflows.
Artificial IntelligenceCloud InfrastructureDistributed SystemsDeveloper PlatformsProduct EngineeringStartup OperationsAutomationTechnical Leadership
Philosophy
Software should create leverage.
The best technology removes complexity rather than adding it. Great systems are understandable, maintainable, and useful. Great companies solve real problems. Great engineers ship.
Values
- Ownership over bureaucracy
- Speed over perfection
- Simplicity over complexity
- Learning over ego
- Execution over presentations
Building
A laptop, an idea, and enough persistence can change the trajectory of a business.
Outside of my day job, I spend most of my time building. I have launched products in AI, SaaS, developer tooling, restaurant technology, and automation. Some succeeded, some failed, and all of them taught me something valuable.
What keeps me motivated is the same thing that motivated me when I started writing software: the ability to create something from nothing.
Life
Countryside of São Paulo, Brazil.
When I am not building software, I am spending time with my family, exploring business ideas, studying technology, lifting weights, reading about startups, or working on the next project that probably should not exist but sounds too interesting not to build.
Current interests
Problems worth paying attention to.
AI agents and autonomous systemsCloud-native platformsScientific computingBiotechnologyStartup strategyDeveloper experienceInfrastructure automationHuman-computer collaboration
Connect
If you are building something ambitious, I would love to hear about it.
I am always interested in talking with builders, founders, engineers, and people working on difficult problems.