Andrew Nikitin
Senior Python Developer at IVA Technologies
Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russian Federation
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Nikitin is a Senior Python Developer and computer vision engineer with 11 years of experience building and optimizing neural networks for deployment on CPU/GPU/TPU and custom accelerators like FPGA and ASIC. He specializes in quantization (including 8-bit fixed-point), performance tuning, and implementing detection, classification and segmentation models (YOLO, MobileNet, ResNet, etc.), and has shipped a YOLOv2 inference on an FPGA accelerator. Comfortable across Python, C/C++, SystemVerilog and toolchains such as TensorFlow, PyTorch and OpenCL, he bridges algorithm development, low-level verification and production CI/CD workflows. His background includes designing verification testbenches and reference image-processing models, giving him deep insight into the math and hardware implications of CNNs. He has contributed full-stack improvements to well-known infrastructure like pfSense packages, showing an ability to work both on embedded ML and web-facing tooling. Based in Taganrog, he pairs academic rigor in electronics with hands-on delivery of optimized ML systems for constrained hardware.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s degree, Design and technology in electronic engineering, 4,5, Master’s degree, Design and technology in electronic engineering, 4,5 at Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University)
Русский, English
Github Skills (5)
html10
pfsense10
php10
javascript10
web-development10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pfsense/pfsense-packages
Nov 2014 - Oct 2015
pfSense packages repository
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the pfSense packages repository by enhancing the existing packages and implementing new features. They made significant changes to the HAVP antivirus package, including adding a log viewer and modifying the log parsing logic. They also developed a new UPS status widget, demonstrating skills in both backend and frontend development within the pfSense environment. The contributions indicate a strong understanding of pfSense's package structure and web interface development.
censorship-resistancepfsense
SunStroke74/FreeBSD-ports
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 months
portspfsensefreebsdfreebsd-portschanges
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