Ilya Kavalerov
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Kavalerov is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience blending deep research and production engineering across Google and startups. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland where his work explored semantics, physics, and adversarial mechanisms in deep learning, and he has applied that research during multiple Google research internships in perception and sound understanding. At Google he progressed from software engineer to senior roles, bringing ML-driven solutions to large-scale systems, and he has also consulted on GAN projects for a stealth startup. Comfortable moving between academic depth and production constraints, he pairs rigorous experimentation with pragmatic software delivery. Notably, his background spans both data science and platform scaling from earlier roles at Artsy, reflecting a rare mix of research rigor and hands-on engineering.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) and Bachelor of Arts (BA) Chemistry and English, Bachelor of Science (BS) and Bachelor of Arts (BA) Chemistry and English at The George Washington UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland
English, German
Github Skills (73)
semi-supervised-learning10
detectron9
segmentation9
source-separation9
visual-recognition9
object-detection8
message-passing8
belief-propagation8
jekyll8
pytorch8
earth-observation8
speech-enhancement7
deep-learning7
python7
crossword7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ilyakava/gan
May 2020 - Jan 2021
Tooling for GANs in TensorFlow
Contributions:51 commits, 234 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
tensorflow
ilyakava/py3fst
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:101 commits, 1 push in 11 months
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