Diego Cena
Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Cena is a seasoned software engineer from Buenos Aires with 10 years of experience specializing in advanced socket programming, TCP/IP applications, and C and Python development. He designs and implements RESTful-like APIs and has hands-on experience building Twitter integration tools. As an active open-source contributor, he enhanced the popular gocv computer vision library with multi-page image reading, improved window event handling, and face recognition utilities, demonstrating comfort with native code and cross-language bindings. Diego combines low-level networking expertise with practical backend systems work, making him effective at performance-sensitive, protocol-heavy projects. He brings a pragmatic mindset and a knack for bridging C/C++ internals with higher-level application logic.
10 years of coding experience
Universidad John F. Kennedy
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
golang10
computer-vision10
opencv10
go10
image-processing10
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hybridgroup/gocv
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Go package for computer vision using OpenCV 4 and beyond. Includes support for DNN, CUDA, OpenCV Contrib, and OpenVINO.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 43 PRs, 6 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to the `gocv` repository, focusing on enhancing the image processing capabilities. Their work involved implementing multi-page image reading functionality, specifically adding `IMReadMulti` and `IMReadMulti_WithParams` support, which involved changes to `imgcodecs.go`, `imgcodecs.cpp`, `imgcodecs.h` and `imgcodecs_test.go`. They also added support for window WaitKeyEx and PollKey along with related unit tests. Further work included face recognition updates, RotatedRect type constructors, and FileStorage implementations.
face-trackingvideotensorflowcomputervisiondnn
diegohce/logger
Jan 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 tags in 6 years 1 month
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