Alin Popa
Senior Applied Scientist Tech Lead at Amazon
Bucharest Metropolitan Area Romania
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlin Popa is a Senior Applied Scientist and Tech Lead based in Bucharest with eight years of experience building production-grade computer vision and ML systems at Amazon and Google. He combines hands-on model engineering—particularly custom vision-language models and prompt optimization—with technical leadership that turns research into deployable, compliance-ready automation. His background includes top-tier publications, patents, and real-world impact such as signature and malicious-activity detection deployed in AWS and Amazon fulfillment centers. Holding a PhD in Computer Vision/Machine Learning and an MSc from Imperial College London, he brings deep academic rigor to pragmatic product delivery. An underappreciated strength is his long-running focus on human sensing from natural RGB data, blending generative models and geometric/statistical methods to push perception toward human-level performance.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision / Machine Learning, Excellent, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Vision / Machine Learning, Excellent at PhD - School of Advanced Studies of the Romanian Academy (SCOSAAR)Master of Science, Advanced Computing, Distinction, Master of Science, Advanced Computing, Distinction at Imperial College LondonBachelor of Science, Computer Science, 9.56 / 10, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 9.56 / 10 at University of Bucharest
English, French
Github Skills (13)
feature-matching6
matching6
backbone6
supervised-learning5
self-supervised-learning5
deep-learning4
video-understanding4
pytorch3
computer-vision3
graph3
transformers3
pose-estimation3
vision-transformer3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alinionutpopa/dmhs
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:64 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
sminchisescu-research/MubyNet
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:33 commits in 3 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.