Chris Kirmse
Software Engineer at Grokker Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Kirmse is a seasoned software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years building fast-moving game and internet products at growth-stage companies. He thrives on rapid product development, balancing infrastructure and feature trade-offs while leading small teams to deliver polished user experiences. Comfortable across Windows and Unix/Linux and a wide language set—from C/C++ and Objective-C to Perl, PHP, Python, shell scripting, and modern Node.js/JavaScript—he treats each new company as a technical adventure. Chris also contributes to open-source ML tooling, including improvements to a popular attention-based OCR project, showing a pragmatic curiosity that spans from systems to machine learning. He’s equally likely to seed a product idea during a nerf basketball break as in a deep design discussion, blending creativity with engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
ocr10
mask-rcnn10
faster-rcnn10
image-recognition10
machine-learning10
tensorflow10
ocra10
python10
seq2seq10
data-generation9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
emedvedev/attention-ocr
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
A Tensorflow model for text recognition (CNN + seq2seq with visual attention) available as a Python package and compatible with Google Cloud ML Engine.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:18 commits, 13 PRs, 32 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `attention-ocr` project by implementing and refining features related to text recognition using a CNN and seq2seq model. Their work focused on improving compatibility with different Python versions, fixing dataset issues, and adding functionality for full ASCII character support. They also addressed performance issues by modifying the CNN architecture and implemented the ability to make predictions from loaded checkpoints, enhancing the usability of the OCR model.
pythongoogle-cloud-mlimage-recognitionocr-recognitionml-engine
ckirmse/Meridian59
Dec 2015 - Nov 2024
The MMORPG Meridian 59
Contributions:16 pushes in 9 years
mmorpggamegame-development
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