Ovidiu Pârvu
Senior Software Engineer at G-Research
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOvidiu Pârvu is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building production-grade systems across NLP, IoT and quantitative research domains. He has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like OpenCV—improving core geometry routines—and has a track record at Microsoft (SwiftKey) and IBM working on text prediction and cloud IoT services. At G-Research he progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Engineer and Associate Partner, blending hands-on coding with technical leadership in a research-driven trading environment. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Brunel University and has taught undergraduate courses, reflecting a strong academic foundation and mentoring aptitude. Known for pragmatic refactors and careful API-level improvements, he brings rigorous software craftsmanship to complex numerical and ML-informed systems.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Brunel University of LondonBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University
English, German, Romanian
Github Skills (9)
algorithm10
data-structures10
computer-vision10
algorithms10
opencv10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
image-processing10
data-structure10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
opencv/opencv
Sep 2013 - Sep 2013
Open Source Computer Vision Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 4 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Ovidiu primarily focused on implementing and refactoring a function within the OpenCV library related to minimum enclosing triangles. Their work involved modifying the function's parameters, changing the input/output handling using proxy classes. Additionally, the user added the functionality to the existing sample file and corrected comments, removed unreferenced macros and made several other optimizations and improvements. The code changes also include documentation updates and conversion of C-style casts to static casts.
pythonvisiondeep-learningc-plus-pluscomputer-vision
IceRage/algorithms
Jul 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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