Maxim Smirnov
BizDev Director at EVT - Efficient Video Transcoding
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxim Smirnov is a seasoned technical and business leader with over a decade of experience delivering advanced image- and video-processing solutions, from algorithm design to product deployment. As BizDev Director at EVT and long-time Technical Director at YUVsoft, he combines hands-on C/C++ and x86 SIMD optimization expertise with client-facing skills in technical sales, negotiations, and project leadership across Europe, Asia and the U.S. His background spans R&D for codecs, frame-rate and 2D-to-3D conversion, watermarking and compression, plus practical FPGA/ASIC and GPGPU optimization work. He also contributes to open-source AI tooling—updating backend APIs and integrating a Telegram bot for the notable OpenCog AGI framework—demonstrating a rare blend of legacy systems fluency and modern integration. With a PhD-level engineering education and experience leading cross-functional teams, he reliably translates complex technical requirements into commercial solutions.
11 years of coding experience
PhD in engineering, Computer systems engineering, PhD in engineering, Computer systems engineering at Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and Instrumentation
English, Russian, German, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
api10
natural-language-understanding10
python10
apidoc10
flask10
flask-ask10
agi7
big-data6
algorithm6
assertion6
boost6
apache6
regex6
tor6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
opencog/opencog
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
A framework for integrated Artificial Intelligence & Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 8 PRs, 30 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily focused on updating and maintaining the backend API functionality of the opencog project. They made the print function python3-compatible and addressed deprecated imports related to the flask framework. The user also created a Telegram bot for interaction with the opencog system, demonstrating integration with NLP and chatbot capabilities. Additionally, the user made minor adjustments for python3 compatibility in atomspace_publisher.py.
unsupervised-learning-algorithmsroboticsnatural-language-understandingartificial-general-intelligenceintegrated
StrangeTcy/opencog
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019
A framework for integrated Artificial Intelligence & Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Contributions:20 pushes in 1 year 6 months
artificial-general-intelligenceintegratedagiartificialmachine-learning
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