Daniel Merrick
Senior Perception Engineer at Saronic Technologies
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Merrick is a Senior Perception Engineer with nine years of experience building and deploying production-grade ML and computer vision systems, currently focused on perception at Saronic Technologies after leading perception and ML efforts at Canopy. He has deep hands-on expertise across the full ML lifecycle—from data collection and annotation to model quantization, CI/CD deployment, and monitoring—and has shipped embedded C++ vision libraries for edge devices. Daniel’s background includes sensor fusion work combining radar, cameras and LiDAR to improve threat detection and HD mapping for autonomous vehicles at Ford, and he has led research on consistency metrics and low-power vision at Purdue. Comfortable prototyping hardware-software stacks and benchmarking inference across frameworks, he pairs research-informed rigor with practical engineering that moves models from lab to constrained production environments.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (53)
python10
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
deep-learning9
deep-neural-networks8
ml8
mbed8
jlink7
operating-system7
arm6
logging6
stlink6
coco6
voc6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
dmerrick520/communication_unit
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 42 pushes in 21 days
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