Summary
Csaba Petre is an AI/ML, computer vision, and backend software consultant with 15 years of startup experience building MVPs, leading engineering teams, and shipping robotics and IoT products. He co-founded AI drug discovery and vehicle-analytics startups, earned NSF SBIR funding, and has a strong track record of turning research (29 patents, multiple publications) into deployed systems. Practically fluent in Python, ROS/ROS2, Azure, Docker, and real-time CV/point-cloud stacks, he’s implemented lidar detection, YOLO-based crop classifiers, and RAG pipelines for IoT analytics. He combines hands-on firmware and embedded work with cloud-native architectures—an unusual full-stack blend that spans Raspberry Pi prototypes to Azure Databricks production pipelines. Based in San Diego, he’s currently available for remote consulting and continues to advise startups he helped found.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
University of California, Los Angeles