Iliya Zhechev
Senior Research Engineer at Redis
Antarctica
Summary
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Top SchoolIliya Zhechev is a Senior Research Engineer with a decade of experience building visual, interactive software and deploying machine learning systems in production. He has led end-to-end ML projects from feature engineering and visualization to model selection and deployment at companies like MYX AD and Hyperscience, and now contributes research-driven engineering at Redis. Iliya blends hands-on product delivery—shipping mobile apps and detection/tracking prototypes—with academic teaching, having created interactive AI and functional programming courses and materials. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and vision models (Faster R-CNN, MobileNet, YOLO), he favors creative, explainable interfaces that make complex algorithms tangible. Based in Antarctica, he brings a curious, almost philosophical bent to engineering—aptly summarized in his GitHub bio—and a track record of turning research ideas into production value.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematical High School "Atanas Radev"Master's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English, Bulgarian, German
Stackoverflow
411reputation
422kreached
1answer
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Github Skills (96)
statistics10
python9
machine-learning9
data-science9
curve-fitting9
data-analysis9
scikit-learn8
card-flip8
classification8
graph-editor8
dataflow-programming8
flow-control7
flow-based-programming7
gpu7
regression7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ichko/differentiable-simulation
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:199 commits, 129 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
ichko/PantaRay
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:62 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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