Summary
Shtiliyan Uzunov is a Senior AI/ML Engineer with 11 years of experience building applied machine learning and software systems across startups and large enterprises. He has led R&D and people management for ML teams, delivering projects from Gaussian splatting and 3D-to-2D vectorization pipelines to drone-based people detection and large-scale email/ticket automation. His background spans full-stack engineering, virtualization, and production ML—roles at SAP, VMware and MYX show a blend of hands-on implementation and research-led productization. Now at Iris.ai, he continues to bridge cutting-edge research with pragmatic engineering, often exploring novel cross-domain techniques like using 2D segmentation models for 3D tasks via voting and consensus. Based in Bulgaria with a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence, he brings a practical, experimental mindset and a track record of turning research prototypes into operational features.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
High School, Mathematics/German/Informatics, High School, Mathematics/German/Informatics at High school of Mathematics Varna
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Technical University of Varna
English, German, Bulgarian