Lou Kratz
Senior Principal Engineer at Bazaarvoice
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLou Kratz is a Senior Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in computer vision and applied AI, currently leading engineering efforts at Bazaarvoice. A Drexel PhD and former graduate researcher, Lou blends deep academic rigour with product-focused research, previously shaping visual recommendation and analytics systems at Curalate. He teaches graduate-level computer vision, demonstrating an ability to translate cutting-edge techniques into curriculum and production systems. Known for pragmatic research engineering, Lou has a track record of shipping ML solutions from prototype to scale and even explored IMU-based gesture recognition during a Microsoft research internship. Based in Philadelphia, he combines curiosity-driven experimentation with hands-on architecture and mentorship across teams.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Drexel University
Github Skills (129)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lou-k/lou-k.github.io
Jun 2017 - Dec 2024
Static Pages
Contributions:6 PRs, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
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lou-k/kinetic-photo
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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