Jim Zin
Chief Software Architect at Atmanity
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJim Zin is a Chief Software Architect with 11 years of experience building perception and 3D computer vision systems for mobile, automotive, and mapping platforms. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Computer Vision, Supélec and KTH double-degree) with hands-on production work at Apple, Phiar, and Google, leading teams that deploy efficient AI networks and embedded perception stacks. His expertise spans dense stereo reconstruction, optical see-through calibration, LIDAR and image fusion, and optimizing models for GPUs and mobile accelerators like Hexagon and Apple Neural Engine. Jim is comfortable taking projects from research prototype to production scale, having published in ICCV, BMVC and 3DIMPVT and shipped map and AR features used at large scale. Based in Palo Alto, he now focuses on architecture and strategy while retaining low-level algorithm craft—an engineer who bridges rigorous academic research and practical, deployable systems. An often-overlooked strength is his early leadership experience in student associations, which sharpened his collaborative and organizational skills.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Supélec Engineer Energy and Information Science, Supélec Engineer Energy and Information Science at CentraleSupélecDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Vision at Université d’AuvergneDouble-Degree in Electrical Engineering Digital Communications Signal Processing Robotics, Double-Degree in Electrical Engineering Digital Communications Signal Processing Robotics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
English, French
Github Skills (68)
slurm10
cloud-computing10
windows10
cost-optimization10
metal10
pbr10
gltf10
job-scheduler10
linux10
hyperparameter-tuning10
opengl10
job-queue10
webgl10
vulkan10
3d-graphics10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jimbz/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Sep 2022
Contributions:74 pushes in 7 years 8 months
PHIAR/simdFilament
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
A port of a subset of the Apple SIMD framework backed by the math utilities of the Filament 3D engine.
Contributions:68 commits, 7 PRs, 32 pushes in 11 months
3d-enginesimd
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.