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Guido Jacofsky · Buenos Aires I build software that touches the physical world.

Guido Jacofsky

I'm Guido Jacofsky, I'm 17 and I'm finishing high school in the ICT track at ORT in Buenos Aires. At Gemm I build the virtual reality teleoperation and the web panel for the Unitree G1 humanoid. I'm also building Platto, a menu where every dish shows up in 3D on your table.

  • — Buenos Aires
  • — ORT · ICT track
  • — Robotics · Full stack
  • — 17 years old

01 — Work

What I'm building

01 · Gemm · Mar 2026 — now · In development

Software that lets commercial robots work in industrial plants.

Gemm turns commercial robots —a Unitree Go2 and a G1 EDU humanoid— into plant operators: robots that perceive, map and work where a person shouldn't have to be. I build the virtual reality teleoperation, the robot's web panel and the manipulation module for the Dex5-1 hands.

Role: VR teleoperation, robot panel and Dex5-1 manipulation

ORT, September 29: me in the Quest 3, teleoperating the G1.

The G1 robot's hand holding a ball while an operator wearing a VR headset controls it in the background
The G1 grabbing a ball through teleoperation, in the ORT lab.
motors the panel shows live
29
motors the panel shows live
live video to the headset, smooth and light on the robot
HD
live video to the headset, smooth and light on the robot
to start teleoperation from the panel
1 button
to start teleoperation from the panel
tests in the manipulation module
137
tests in the manipulation module

02 · Platto · Jul 2026 — now · In development

A menu where every dish shows up in 3D and augmented reality, with nothing to install.

The customer scans the table's QR code, opens the menu in the browser and can spin each dish in 3D or see it served on their table through the camera. The hard part wasn't the menu: it was getting 3D that actually looks like the real dish.

Role: Founder · the whole product

Drag to spin
The demo's margherita, exactly as a customer sees it. Spin it with your finger or mouse.
turned into 3D: the pizza looked like a cake
1 photo
turned into 3D: the pizza looked like a cake
per dish with my own reconstruction system
15–20 min
per dish with my own reconstruction system
different paths I tried to get the 3D
6
different paths I tried to get the 3D
apps to install
0
apps to install
Platto demo menu on a phone
A pizza page with its 3D model in Platto

03 · Quicky · Apr — Jun 2026 · Shut down

Temporary rooms to move text, code and files between devices, no account needed.

At school, getting something from the computer to your phone was a chore. Quicky solved it with a room and a 6-character code: you joined, shared messages, code, files and notes in real time, and after 2 hours everything was deleted. It was my first serious project: it was online for anyone, with its own server and built to grow. It's shut down now.

Role: Everything: product, design, frontend, server and deploy

characters in the code to join a room
6
characters in the code to join a room
and the whole room is deleted
2 h
and the whole room is deleted
people per room
200
people per room
per file, viewable without downloading
1 GB
per file, viewable without downloading
Quicky's landing page on a phone, with the code field and the create-room button
A Quicky room with a message, a code block and a poll

02 — Other projects

Smaller things that still count

03 — Markets

I started with crypto at 11. Now I do arbitrage.

My first trade was at 11. Then came stocks, futures and different ways of reading a market, and over the years one question stuck: why does the same thing cost different amounts in different places? Today I do arbitrage between pesos, dollars, euros and crypto, and I run the numbers in Excel.

  1. Age 11

    A Binance account

    A family member helped me get started by opening a Binance account for me to use. Even at that age I was curious about crypto, and especially about one idea: buying something at one price and selling it later for more.

    Trying out strategies I found on YouTube and combining indicators, I bought Solana at 22 USDT. Two years later I sold it at 200 USDT. The figure isn't the point. It was the first time I bought and sold something and it worked, and it left me wanting to understand more.

  2. After that

    Learning on my own

    I kept going on my own, with YouTube channels and whatever material I could find. I went through crypto, stocks and futures, and picked up different ways of trading and of analyzing a market.

    There was no plan. I moved from one market to the next, trying to understand how prices move, what pushes them and how each instrument works.

  3. Over the years

    The gap, not the direction

    At some point I stopped asking only whether something would go up or down. I got interested in how markets work underneath, and especially in something that keeps happening: the same thing isn't worth the same everywhere. The price of an asset or a currency changes between exchanges, between currencies and between P2P platforms, where people buy and sell directly with each other.

    That's what arbitrage is: finding those gaps and working out whether they're worth taking. It doesn't depend on guessing where the price is headed. It depends on getting the math right.

  4. Now · age 17

    Multicurrency arbitrage

    Today it's something I actively do. I work with Argentine pesos, US dollars, euros, crypto and stablecoins, on exchanges and in P2P markets. I compare prices and exchange rates, think through the possible conversion routes and work out what each step costs.

    A gap on a screen isn't a profit. Between what you see and what you keep there are fees, the cost of each conversion and whatever it takes for the trade to actually go through. A gap that looks good can leave nothing, or a lot less than it seemed.

    Currencies
    Argentine pesos (ARS) · US dollars (USD) · Euros (EUR)
    Crypto
    Cryptocurrencies and stablecoins
    Where
    Exchanges and P2P markets
    Math
    Excel spreadsheets with formulas
  5. How

    The math, in Excel

    Over time I built a way of working that I repeat on every operation. It runs on Excel spreadsheets with formulas: the prices, the cost of each step and what's left at the end. That way I decide with the math done, not by eye or in my head.

    It's the same way I think when I code: understand how the system works, separate what something looks like from what's actually happening, and let the decision come out of a process I can repeat.

    The math behind each operation, simplified. No numbers, on purpose.

It started with a kid's question: if I buy at this price, can I sell it for more? Six years later my questions aren't that different, but I answer them differently: with formulas, with costs, and looking at several markets at once.

04 — Skills

What I can do

What I do it with

■ every day · □ in projects

Languages
TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonSQLCBash
Web
Next.jsReactTailwind CSSNode.jsBunExpressElysiaFastAPIREST APIsWebSocketsAuthshadcn/ui3D and AR in the browser
Data
PostgreSQLPrismaDrizzleSupabaseNeonRedisSQLite
Robotics
VR teleoperationUnitree G1 and Go2ROS 2Embedded LinuxWebRTCMuJoCoESP32
AI
Claude CodeLLM APIsComputer vision3D reconstructionPandas / NumPyMachine learningSpeech (STT / TTS)
Deploy and tools
Git / GitHubVercelDockerTurborepoGitHub ActionsRailwayPlaywrightFigma
Languages
Spanish (native) · English (advanced, C1)

05 — Right now

What I'm up to

Updated: October 3, 2026

06 — Notes

What happened and what I took from it

Featured

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07 — How I work

I started coding at school, in ORT's ICT track. In 2026 my projects left the screen.

08 — FAQ

What people usually ask

Who is Guido Jacofsky?

Guido Jacofsky is a 17-year-old Argentine student from Buenos Aires who is finishing high school in the ICT track at ORT Argentina. He builds the virtual reality teleoperation and the web panel for the Unitree G1 humanoid robot at Gemm, and is building Platto, a restaurant menu with dishes in 3D and augmented reality.

What does Guido Jacofsky do at Gemm?

Gemm builds software that lets commercial robots work in industrial plants. Guido owns the virtual reality teleoperation of the Unitree G1, the robot's web panel and the manipulation module for the Dex5-1 hands.

What is Platto?

Platto is a restaurant menu where every dish can be seen in 3D and augmented reality from the phone's browser, with no app to install. Guido Jacofsky is its founder and builds it end to end.

What is Quicky?

Quicky is a web app to move text, code and files between devices using a room and a 6-character code, with no account. Rooms are deleted after 2 hours. It was Guido Jacofsky's first serious project: he built it end to end and it ran live on its own server. It's shut down now.

What other projects has he built?

He rebuilt the OftalmoLegal website, cutting its cost from ARS 400,000 to ARS 25,500 a year; built RepoGuide, a tool to understand repositories with AI; the stock and counter system for his grandfather's plumbing supply shop; a bot that compares digital dollar prices; and took part in hackathons such as the one at Universidad Di Tella.

What technologies does he use?

Mainly TypeScript, Next.js, React, Python and PostgreSQL. In robotics, ROS 2, the Unitree SDK and virtual reality with a Meta Quest 3.

How can I contact Guido Jacofsky?

By email at guidojacofskyy@gmail.com or on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/guidojacofsky). His CV can be downloaded from this page.

09 — Contact

Write to me

If you have an internship, a project, a plant with a round you'd rather a robot walked, or you just want to talk, write to me.

guidojacofskyy@gmail.com