Hi, I'm Sebastian Penhouet!

CTO & Site Manager at AIRAmed

About

CTO and Site Manager in MedTech. Since 2020 I have taken an AI medical device for brain MRI analysis from an early prototype to FDA 510(k) clearance and MDR certification, and built the R&D team up to 22 people. Today I run development with a lean team that relies heavily on LLM agents, and I still work on code and architecture myself.

In my free time I build open-source tools around documentation, developer workflows and AI agents.

Work Experience

Aug. 2026 - Present

Site Manager

AIRAmed GmbH

Germany, Tübingen

  • Site responsibility in addition to the CTO role
  • Budget, purchasing, contracts, HR decisions and staffing, company roadmap and facilities
  • Management Representative for the QMS (ISO 13485) and primary contact for authorities and notified bodies
June 2025 - Present

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

AIRAmed GmbH

Germany, Tübingen

  • Responsible for technology, product development and AI for an FDA-cleared, MDR-certified AI medical device for brain MRI analysis
  • Run development with a lean team, with development and QM processes rebuilt around LLM agents
  • Redefined the medical device boundary to shrink the QM-relevant scope and speed up work on non-device components
  • Made the product agent-ready and moved technical documentation and the QMS to Markdown/Git
Jan. 2020 - May 2025

Head of Research & Development

AIRAmed GmbH

Germany, Tübingen

  • Took an early prototype to a market-ready AI medical device: FDA 510(k) clearance (2023) and MDR certification (2024)
  • Built and led R&D up to 22 people across data science, backend, web, project management and support
  • Designed a GDPR-compliant cloud platform with DICOM integration into hospital IT and on-demand GPU compute
  • Defined the AI/ML strategy and developed deep learning models for segmentation, volumetry and longitudinal analysis
Oct. 2016 - Dec. 2019

Working Student

itdesign GmbH

Germany, Tübingen

Oct. 2013 - Sept. 2016

Co-Op Student

itdesign GmbH

Germany, Tübingen

Education

2016 - 2019

MSc. in Computer Science

University of Tübingen

Germany, Tübingen

2013 - 2016

BSc. in Computer Science

Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) - Stuttgart Campus Horb

Germany, Horb am Neckar

Projects & Research

Medical AI & Imaging

Open Imaging Index

Open Imaging Index

Open, community-built index of medical imaging datasets. Search by modality, contrast and cohort, with license terms broken down into clear rules.

Developer Tooling

confluence-markdown-exporter

confluence-markdown-exporter

Exports Atlassian Confluence pages as Markdown, for example to make company knowledge usable for LLMs and AI agents.
bitbucket-jira-cli

bitbucket-jira-cli

The gh CLI experience for Bitbucket and Jira. Terminal-native and scriptable, so it works well with AI coding agents.
obsidian-pdf-exporter

obsidian-pdf-exporter

Exports Obsidian vaults to PDF with plugin support. Runs locally or in CI.
tensorboard-aggregator

tensorboard-aggregator

Tool to aggregate multiple TensorBoard runs to new summary or csv files

Research

Automated Deep Photo Style Transfer

Automated Deep Photo Style Transfer

Automated photo realistic style transfer with automatic image segmentation and automatic segment merging based on semantic similarity
Semi-supervised Learning with Locally Embedded Autoencoder

Semi-supervised Learning with Locally Embedded Autoencoder

Local disentangled representation learning. Data dependent and information preserving dimensionality reduction.

Hobby Projects

Tintplan

Tintplan

Hobby project. Take a photo of a coloring page, tap the areas and pick from the pens you own.
KioskSurvey

KioskSurvey

Hobby project. Full-screen, offline kiosk survey app for events and feedback stations.