Nicolas Rey-villamizar
Sr. Perception Software Engineer at AI Stealth Startup
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Rey-villamizar is a senior perception software engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance C++ and Python systems for machine perception and scientific R&D. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he currently develops perception stacks at an AI stealth startup after leading technical teams and consulting at Bluware. His background blends HPC, machine learning, and electronic engineering—rooted in graduate research and industry R&D roles at Emerson and Paradigm—which enables him to bridge algorithm design and production-grade implementation. Comfortable operating across research and product settings, he brings hands-on expertise in optimizing compute-intensive pipelines and integrating ML models into real-time systems. An international academic trajectory and long tenure in research hint at a strong inclination for rigorous experimentation and reproducible engineering.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronic Engineering at Universidad Industrial de SantanderStudent exchange program, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Student exchange program, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Concordia UniversityM.Sc, Electrical Engineering, M.Sc, Electrical Engineering at University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
English, Spanish
Github Skills (22)
pythonic9
zipline9
dimensions9
image-analysis8
algorithmic-trading8
python8
backtesting-trading-strategies8
reproducible-research8
trading8
open-science7
trading-bot7
finance7
itk7
medical-imaging7
cpp6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
hocheung20/farsight
Oct 2011 - May 2013
Contributions:315 commits in 1 year 7 months
nrey/zipline
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
algorithmic-trading-librarypythonalgorithmic-tradingtrading-bottrading
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