Ștefan Istrate
Founder at Tech4Nature LTD
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolȘtefan Istrate is a founder and senior AI research engineer with 12 years of experience building ML systems for computer vision and NLP, shaped by a decade of research-focused work with Google and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. He has led large-scale conservation AI projects—creating SpeciesNet (the largest open species-recognition model used on ~300M images across 116 countries) and deploying satellite and bioacoustic models to support sustainable sourcing and biodiversity monitoring. Comfortable moving between research and production, he has accelerated inference engines, re-engineered libraries for reproducible research, and delivered models with industry-grade precision and recall. Equally passionate about the natural world, he channels that obsession into Tech4Nature LTD and a parallel practice as a nature photographer, combining field curiosity with pragmatic engineering to tackle climate, pollution and biodiversity loss. An early competitive programmer and long-time tinkerer, he blends algorithmic rigor with product-minded execution to turn conservation science into scalable tech.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Advanced Computer Science, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Advanced Computer Science at University of CambridgeHigh School Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science, High School Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science at Grigore Moisil High School, UrziceniBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Bucharest
Romanian, English
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Github Skills (123)
python10
streaming10
django10
beam10
pandas10
statistics10
sql10
golang10
batch10
data-visualization10
git10
data-science10
gitignore10
java10
version-control10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stefanistrate/instaloader
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Download pictures (or videos) along with their captions and other metadata from Instagram.
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 1 month
captionpythonpicturesvideospython-requests
stefanistrate/light-maglev
Mar 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 release, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
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