Alok Govil
Principal Engineer (CTPS) at Amazon
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAlok Govil is a Principal Engineer and multidisciplinary technologist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, blending deep expertise in AI, NLP, computer vision, and circuit/display design with end-to-end system architecture. With a track record across Amazon and Qualcomm, he has driven visionary, cross-functional programs from proposal to product, authored technical papers and book chapters, and holds 42+ issued patents out of 80+ filed. He’s known for simplifying complex ideas and mentoring teams, and has delivered lectures, judged competitions, and organized hackathons to cultivate technical communities. Notably, he led ultra-low-power always-on vision work that achieved orders-of-magnitude energy reductions and published pioneering models for MEMS response-time and display testing. A sought-after problem-solver, he combines hands-on implementation (from analog ICs to ML models) with product and business thinking to move risky, high-reward concepts into adoption.
6 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MSEE Electrical Engineering, MSEE Electrical Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaK-12 Major in Sciences, K-12 Major in Sciences at Gyan Mandir Public School - IndiaB.E. Electronics and Telecommunications, B.E. Electronics and Telecommunications at Delhi College of Engineering
Github Skills (10)
computer-vision10
excel10
google-keep9
crowdin8
java7
google7
android6
evernote5
notebook5
open-source4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-excel
Feb 2020 - May 2022
Computer Vision Basics in Microsoft Excel (using just formulas)
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years 3 months
computer-visionexcel
alokgovil/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-excel
Mar 2020 - May 2026
Computer Vision Basics in Microsoft Excel (using just formulas)
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 years 3 months
computer-visionexcel
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