Paul Filitchkin
Sr Data Scientist
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Filitchkin is a senior data scientist with 15 years of experience applying AI, signal processing, and computer vision to real-time, multi-modal systems across automotive ADAS, robotics, and large-scale digital marketplaces. He currently leads CV/ML algorithm development at Muncaster Consulting after running AI and data science as technical lead at Creative Market, where he drove search, recommendation, and classification for product discovery. A hands-on engineer and former CTO/founder, Paul has built production systems from embedded vision for UAVs to consumer-facing iOS marketplaces, blending low-level signal processing with scalable backend architectures. His background includes research-driven projects (vision-based terrain classification, brain-computer interfaces) that inform pragmatic, safety-conscious solutions in deployed systems. Based in Santa Barbara, he pairs academic rigor from UCSB with startup-driven product sensibility, often surfacing subtle sensor-fusion and real-time constraints that others overlook.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oregon State UniversityMaster’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara
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Github Skills (27)
flir9
extraction8
metadata7
keras6
deep-learning6
api6
android6
google-maps6
scikit-learn6
overlay6
python6
multithreading6
mkmapview6
objective-c6
c-library5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
filitchp/opencv-histlib
Jan 2011 - Dec 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 4 pushes in 6 years
filitchp/spiritedrobotics
Jan 2013 - Jul 2016
Contributions:129 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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