Johnny Chien
Self Employed
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJohnny Chien is a computer vision engineering leader based in Auckland with nine years of focused experience delivering city-scale video analytics and CCTV-based solutions. Currently leading Computer Vision Engineering at Auckland Transport, he progressed from specialist analyst to team lead, combining hands-on model development with operational deployment across urban environments. His background spans academia and industry—holding a PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science and having served as an honorary academic and adjunct lecturer—bringing rigorous research instincts to pragmatic engineering. Johnny also maintains long-running freelance and specialist roles since the early 2000s, reflecting a versatile full-stack and systems mindset rooted in real-world deployments. Notably, his experience includes automotive and defence-related R&D and a history of leading development teams, signaling an ability to translate complex research into reliable, production-grade systems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics and Computer Science at Auckland University of Technology
Github Skills (3)
bag-of-words5
bag4
computer-vision3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
johnnychien85/seq2map
Jul 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:51 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
rmsalinas/fbow
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
FBOW (Fast Bag of Words) is an extremmely optimized version of the DBow2/DBow3 libraries.
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
computer-visionvisionprocessingwordsoptimizedbag
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