Paul Tunison
Principal Engineer at Kitware Inc.
City of Syracuse, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Tunison is a Principal Engineer with 12 years at Kitware, driving design and implementation of open-source computer vision and machine learning systems such as KWIVER, SMQTK, and TeleSculptor. He blends research and production software skills—contributing build-system and C/Python interface improvements to aerial photogrammetry tooling—while leading R&D projects across an agile, fast-paced environment. His background in evolutionary computing and undergraduate work on adaptive difficulty systems gives him a creative edge in algorithm design and optimization. Based in Syracuse, he thrives on translating research prototypes into robust, documented engineering artifacts. Colleagues rely on him for both deep technical contribution and pragmatic system architecture.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Union College
Japanese, English
Github Skills (13)
build-system10
c-language10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
api9
apim9
doxygen9
api-design8
python8
linear-algebra5
3d4
geom4
geometry4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Kitware/TeleSculptor
Nov 2013 - Aug 2016
TeleSculptor: Aerial Photogrammetry Application powered by KWIVER
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:548 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Paul focused on improving the CMake build process for the TeleSculptor project. They made numerous changes related to the configuration of the build system, including updates to header file installation, dependency management with PROJ, and Doxygen documentation generation. The user also added various C interface methods and python interfaces, as well as making updates to various related tools for bundle adjustment.
kitwarephotogrammetryc-plus-plusimage-processingaerial-imagery
Kitware/SMQTK-Image-IO
Mar 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:70 reviews, 22 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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