Summary
Vasiliy Kuznetsov is a software engineer in New York with eight years of experience building and productionizing computer vision and ML systems at Facebook, now working on PyTorch model optimization. He brings a rare combination of hands-on C/C++ and Python expertise and product-facing experience from web messaging infrastructure to mobile AR/VR SDKs. As an engineering tech lead he shipped real-time semantic segmentation, detection and hand-tracking solutions that ran on constrained devices, balancing data collection, training, and performance tuning. His career started with self-taught coding weekends and spans product analytics, large-scale migrations, and low-latency system work, showing both technical breadth and operational rigor. He’s passionate about mentorship and crisp execution, comfortable moving between research prototypes and production-quality C++/Python code. Despite a focus on ML and CV, he retains deep infrastructure and front-end experience from earlier platform roles, enabling pragmatic end-to-end delivery.
8 years of coding experience