Philip Ganchev
Senior AI Engineer And Data Scientist
Fort Lee, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Ganchev is a Senior AI Engineer and Data Scientist with a decade of experience building ML-driven systems and production software across startups and major tech firms. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Pittsburgh and has combined academic research with industry roles at AWS, Hulu, NTENT, and I.AM+, consistently moving research into real-world products. Philip focuses on mission-driven domains—climate, clean energy, food systems, health, and transportation—and seeks high-impact problems rather than incremental improvements. He has taught as an adjunct professor, mentored teams as a senior engineer, and bridged roles from software development to machine learning research. Currently based in Fort Lee, NJ, he recently joined Graphwise after leading ML efforts at Ontra, demonstrating an ability to pivot between research and scalable engineering. A detail that sets him apart is his long arc from PhD research to hands-on production engineering, enabling both principled models and pragmatic deployment.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science (double), Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science (double) at University of AucklandDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at University of Pittsburgh
Spanish, French, Bulgarian, Russian, English, Bulgarian, English, French, Spanish, Russian
Github Skills (11)
user-friendly9
shell8
rust8
cli8
duration7
command-line7
bash7
monitor6
gpt5
datetime4
llm4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
iAmPlus/timestring
Jun 2017 - Jan 2018
Making time easier since "Jan 17th, 2013 at 3:59pm"
Contributions:103 commits, 53 PRs, 130 pushes in 7 months
jan
diegoew/gas_monitor
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Gas Monitor
Contributions:46 PRs, 135 pushes, 89 branches in 1 year 1 month
gasmonitor
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