Simon Vandenhende
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Vandenhende is a research-focused software engineer with six years of experience bridging cutting-edge computer vision research and practical backend development. He earned a PhD from KU Leuven working on multimodal, self-supervised, and multi-task learning and transitioned to Meta AI where he progressed from research intern to staff research engineer, publishing work at venues like ECCV. Based in San Francisco, he pairs deep ML expertise with hands-on .NET Core backend skills and familiarity with (No)SQL and modern front-end toolchains, enabling end-to-end system delivery. Notably, his profile blends academic rigor with production-minded engineering—comfortable taking multimodal pre- and post-training ideas from paper to scalable implementation.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Magna Cum Laude at KU Leuven
Github Skills (7)
openid8
oidc-client7
authentication7
browser6
typescript6
javascript6
openid-connect6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
VanDenHendeSimon/misfits
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
VanDenHendeSimon/download-images
May 2020 - Jun 2021
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Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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