David Mizrahi is a Machine Learning engineer with six years of experience building and scaling vision and ML systems, currently on the technical staff at Anthropic after research roles at Apple. He holds a Master’s in Data Science and a Bachelor's in Computer Science from EPFL, combining strong academic foundations with hands-on engineering. David has contributed to prominent open-source computer vision work—integrating Swin Transformer (Swin-B, Swin-L) and DDP support into the well-known OpenPifPaf project—demonstrating expertise in model architecture, distributed training, and production-ready refactors. His background blends research and product-focused development, moving transformer-based CV advances from checkpoints to usable toolchains. Based in San Francisco, he thrives at the intersection of cutting-edge research and deployable ML infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Science, Master's degree, Data Science at EPFL
Official implementation of "OpenPifPaf: Composite Fields for Semantic Keypoint Detection and Spatio-Temporal Association" in PyTorch.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:David made significant contributions to integrating and enhancing Swin Transformer, a transformer-based architecture for computer vision, into the OpenPIFPAF project. This involved implementing new Swin Transformer architectures (Swin-B, Swin-L) and modifying the existing code to accommodate larger models and DDP (Distributed Data Parallelism) compatibility. The user also focused on refactoring, CLI argument changes, and adding pretrained checkpoints for the newly integrated Swin Transformer models.
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 10 comments in 8 months
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David Mizrahi - Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic