Nikita Manovich
Co-Founder at CVAT.AI
Paphos Municipality, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Manovich is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 12 years of experience building production-grade computer vision tooling and annotation infrastructure. As the lead architect and developer of the widely used open-source Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT), he has driven both back-end XML format design and broader system architecture that supports teams and data at scale. His background spans deep learning product leadership at Intel, embedded ADAS engineering, and performance tooling, giving him rare end-to-end expertise from low-level profiling to ML dataset pipelines. Based in Cyprus, he combines hands-on coding with product ownership and a knack for formalizing data formats and workflows that make large-scale annotation projects practical and reproducible.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Applyied mathematics and cybernetics, Master's degree Applyied mathematics and cybernetics at State University of Nizhni Novgorod named after N.I. Lobachevsky (UNN)
Russian, English
Github Skills (6)
xml10
python10
annotations9
annotator9
computer-vision9
javascript6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cvat-ai/cvat
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Annotate better with CVAT, the industry-leading data engine for machine learning. Used and trusted by teams at any scale, for data of any scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 releases, 1594 reviews, 179 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nikita made several commits focused on the implementation and description of the XML format used for annotations within the CVAT application. Their contributions primarily involved modifications to the `annotation.py` file to describe and implement changes in the XML format. The user also made commits merging branches and addressing styling updates in JavaScript files.
semantic-segmentationcvatannotation-toolimage-classificationtensorflow
nmanovic/dummy-anno
Dec 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:8 PRs, 12 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 3 months
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