Francesco Callari
Summary
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SeniorFrancesco Callari is a Principal Engineer at Amazon Prime Air with 11 years of hands-on experience building computer vision and deep learning systems for real-time airborne detection, tracking, and avoidance. His career bridges academia, startups, the movie industry (Industrial Light + Magic), and major tech firms like Google and Twitter, and he holds several patents alongside an Academy Scientific and Engineering Award. He leads teams delivering robust data pipelines and production-grade ML inference while keeping a researcher’s focus on algorithmic rigor and code quality. An active contributor to backend tools—evidenced by fixes to the well-known Scalding Scala API—he combines deep image-processing expertise with practical engineering discipline to ship safety-critical systems.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
11,440reputation
897kreached
433answers
5questions
opencv
top-1%
computer-vision
top-1%
matlab
top-5%
image-processing
top-1%
augmented-reality
top-5%
image
top-5%
Github Skills (23)
opencv10
image-processing10
scala10
camera10
exception-handling10
computer-vision10
image9
augmented-reality9
matlab9
code-optimization9
java9
javas9
homography6
3d-reconstruction6
3d6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
twitter/scalding
Sep 2014 - May 2016
A Scala API for Cascading
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily focused on fixing and improving the codebase's consistency and correctness. This involved addressing exception handling, ensuring the proper type of exceptions were thrown in critical areas of the `scalding-commons` module. The user also cleaned up code, optimizing and clarifying components like the `VersionedStore` class. Additionally, they made a minor correction to a comment within the `LookupJoin.scala` file, demonstrating a focus on code quality.
scala
fgcallari/pycheckerboard
Mar 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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