Andrei Betlen
Member Of Technical Staff at Patagona Technologies
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrei Betlen is a technical team lead and project manager with a decade of experience delivering machine learning, embedded, and computer vision solutions across startups, defence R&D, and non‑profit projects. As CEO and co‑founder of Patagona Technologies he has led multidisciplinary teams to win multiple Canadian defence contracts and translate research into deployed prototypes. He has hands‑on expertise in C++, Python, scientific imaging stacks, and building production-ready bindings—demonstrated by his contributions to the popular llama.cpp Python wrapper. Based in San Francisco, he combines product-minded leadership with day-to-day engineering, from low‑level drivers and embedded systems to distributed web services. Known for setting development best practices and running biweekly sprints, he helps teams ship robust, auditable systems under tight timelines.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Toronto Metropolitan University
English, Romanian
Github Skills (5)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
python10
natural-language-processing7
machine-learning7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
abetlen/llama-cpp-python
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Python bindings for llama.cpp
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 reviews, 371 PRs, 1426 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrei's contributions centered on the development of a Python wrapper for llama.cpp, a C++ library. They focused on integrating the llama.cpp library, creating Python bindings, and establishing the build environment for the Python package. Their work involved modifying the `setup.py` file to use the skbuild system, creating a Python wrapper, and adding logging features.
abetlen/pikchr-js
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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