Zak Semenov
Founder at Stealth AI Startup
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZak Semenov is a data-driven computer scientist and founder in Boston with 12 years of experience building production ML and engineering systems across startups and enterprise settings. He has led machine learning research at Fidelity and shipped real-time, production-grade speech and TTS systems (including a patented CPU-friendly non-autoregressive TTS) at Replicant and Resemble AI, as well as scalable image and transaction inference pipelines at consumer and fintech startups. Comfortable across languages from C/C++ to Python, JavaScript and Go, he blends low-level systems engineering with applied ML research to deliver latency- and resource-constrained solutions. He’s particularly experienced in audio modeling (style control, voice cloning, emotion classification, super-resolution) and conversational AI, and has a track record of turning research prototypes into deployed services. Trained in Mathematics & Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Zak pairs rigorous problem-solving with a founder’s mindset for product-focused innovation.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (79)
apple210
camera10
net-library10
swap10
macbook-pro10
power-management10
touchbar10
gnu10
dotnet9
linux9
android-application9
gadget9
android-applications9
dos9
smartphone9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
free5lot/Camera_Net
Oct 2013 - Jun 2022
Contributions:39 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 8 years 9 months
net-librarydotnetcameracsharpdirectshow
free5lot/hid-apple-patched
Feb 2015 - Oct 2022
Allows to swap the Fn key and left Control key and other tweaks on Macbook Pro and Apple keyboards in GNU/Linux
Contributions:83 commits, 29 PRs, 75 pushes in 7 years 9 months
keyboardsswaplinuxmacbookpower-management
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