Stephan Sturges
Freelance AI Consultant at Helsing
Belgium
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Top SchoolStephan Sturges is a freelance AI consultant and founder with roughly a decade of ML experience and over 20 years in digital sensing, currently building state-of-the-art AI and synthetic data systems for UAVs at ARQOS.ai and Helsing. He combines research-grade synthetic data pipelines—often ahead of public literature—with end-to-end hardware, sensing and supply-chain design, having built custom embedded solutions from scratch. A serial entrepreneur and venture scout, he routinely advises startups, performs M&A diligence, and brings commercial strategy to venture-funded teams in defense and autonomy. His background in visual communication and former career as a studio photographer give him an atypical, design-first perspective on sensor data and perception problems. More transformer than caretaker, he focuses on redesigning approaches, delivering initial wins, and institutionalizing execution across software and hardware stacks.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
prépa PCSI, Physique, Chimie, Sciences de l'Ingénieur, prépa PCSI, Physique, Chimie, Sciences de l'Ingénieur at Lycée Descartes de Tours (37)Bachelor's, Visual Communication, Bachelor's, Visual Communication at Haute Ecole de Bruxelles
English, French, German
Github Skills (94)
detectors10
computer-graphics10
yolov710
mesh-processing10
depth-estimation10
openai-api10
chatgpt10
rendering10
darknet10
api10
bag10
odometry10
open3d10
depthai10
openai10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stephansturges/WALDO
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Whereabouts Ascertainment for Low-lying Detectable Objects. The SOTA in FOSS AI for drones!
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 month
stephansturges/OpenLander
May 2022 - Jan 2023
free-to-use landing-zone detection for UAV using DNNs for object segmentation
Contributions:1 release, 31 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
zonelanding-zoneobject-detectioncomputer-visiondepth-estimation
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