Summary
Māris Ancāns is a Computer Vision Engineer and team lead with a decade of hands-on experience building ML-driven imaging pipelines and R&D infrastructure. Currently at Giraffe360 he architects experiment tracking, dataset management, and model monitoring to scale automated visual processing while coaching his team on reproducible practices. His background blends academic research in reinforcement learning and multi-modal emotion recognition with practical skills in Python, PyTorch, OpenCV, and C++, and a year of production web development in Rails and Django. Outside work he prototypes IoT devices and explores JS/React, reflecting a maker mindset that helps bridge research ideas to deployable systems. Notably, his master’s thesis work on video-based emotion detection informs his approach to multimodal data and real-world CV challenges.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Intelligent Robotics Systems, Master's degree Intelligent Robotics Systems at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University)
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Rīgas tehniskā koledža