Michael Skupien
Senior Software Engineer at Anima
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Skupien is a senior software engineer and founder with nine years of experience building AI-driven products that model human behavior, from self-driving vehicles to child behavioral support tools. He has a track record of taking research into production—leading a cross-functional team at Knockri to serve 100,000+ users and patenting an assessment scoring pipeline that removed racial and gender bias using transformer models. As founder of Bloomry he applied AI to social-emotional and mental health challenges for children, and he now builds on that human-centered AI work at Anima. His background in mechatronics and robotics (University of Waterloo) and early work co-founding self-driving startups informs a pragmatic systems mindset across embedded, backend, and ML stacks. Notably, he combines product-level leadership with hands-on engineering: shipping Django/GraphQL backends, embedded safety systems, and production ML scoring pipelines. Based in Canada, he brings entrepreneurial grit, multidisciplinary technical depth, and a focus on ethical, behavior-aware AI.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science Mechatronics Engineering + AI Option, Bachelor of Applied Science Mechatronics Engineering + AI Option at University of WaterlooProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Meskupie/TorpedoAUV
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:73 commits, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
Meskupie/Sonicam
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:35 commits, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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