Ilya Kavalerov
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Kavalerov is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience blending deep research and production engineering across Google and startups. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland where his work explored semantics, physics, and adversarial mechanisms in deep learning, and he has applied that research during multiple Google research internships in perception and sound understanding. At Google he progressed from software engineer to senior roles, bringing ML-driven solutions to large-scale systems, and he has also consulted on GAN projects for a stealth startup. Comfortable moving between academic depth and production constraints, he pairs rigorous experimentation with pragmatic software delivery. Notably, his background spans both data science and platform scaling from earlier roles at Artsy, reflecting a rare mix of research rigor and hands-on engineering.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) and Bachelor of Arts (BA) Chemistry and English, Bachelor of Science (BS) and Bachelor of Arts (BA) Chemistry and English at The George Washington UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland
English, German
Github Skills (101)
semi-supervised-learning10
wandb9
face-recognition9
sum9
face-detection9
segmentation9
visual-recognition9
supervised-learning9
computer-vision8
object-detection8
source-separation8
earth8
satellite-imagery8
jekyll8
earth-observation8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ilyakava/py3fst
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:101 commits, 1 push in 11 months
ilyakava/ciresan
May 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:96 pushes, 12 branches, 2 comments in 1 year 9 months
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