Alexander Gorban
Staff Software Engineer at General Motors
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Gorban is a Staff Software Engineer and research scientist with a decade of experience building computer vision and ML systems across startups and major tech teams, including Waymo and Google. He co-founded and led CVisionLab for over a decade, blending R&D, product strategy, and engineering leadership to turn research into deployed vision solutions. His hands-on work spans 3D perception for autonomous vehicles, OCR and scene-text models (including spatial-attention enhancements to TensorFlow's Attention OCR), and production-grade deep learning at scale. Based in Pittsburgh with a PhD in theoretical informatics, he brings a rare combination of mathematical rigor, system-level engineering, and proven open-source contributions that improve usability and cross-version compatibility.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Theoretical fondation of informatics, PhD, Theoretical fondation of informatics at Taganrog State Radio Technical University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (16)
model-building10
computer-vision10
machine-learning10
tensorflow10
python10
modeling10
model-driven10
model-driven-development10
datasets9
inference9
ocr6
opencv6
deep-learning6
googlemock6
mnist6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tensorflow/models
Apr 2017 - Apr 2020
Models and examples built with TensorFlow
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:22 commits, 13 PRs, 1 push in 3 years
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the Attention OCR model, focusing on feature enhancements and bug fixes. They added spatial attention to the model and integrated it within the codebase. Additionally, they made the predicted text a part of the model's output, improving usability. Further changes involved refactoring code for Python 3 compatibility and updating the demo inference script.
deep-learningtensorflow
alexgorban/models
Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
Models built with TensorFlow
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 years 3 months
tensorflow
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