Robert Chiriac
Infrastructure Engineer at SPARQ
Lake Forest, California, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Chiriac is an Infrastructure Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native and ML-serving systems, currently focused on infrastructure roles and remote-first work. He has driven production ML deployments and Kubernetes/LocalStack integrations for Fortune 500 clients, and has deep experience optimizing CUDA-backed model serving and low-latency APIs. His background spans embedded systems to platform engineering—contributions to Raspberry Pi robotics projects (GrovePi, GoPiGo) show low-level C refactors and hardware-software integration, while work on YOLOv3 and Cortex demonstrates applied ML engineering at scale. Comfortable architecting on-prem and cloud K8s stacks, he also led an on-prem high-availability build for a stealth startup using generative models. Fluent in bridging research models to production, he pairs a Master’s in AI with practical DevOps chops to reduce cloud spend and simplify developer testing workflows.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at University of Bucharest
English, Romanian, French
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Github Skills (38)
library-design10
python10
machine-learning-models10
machine-learning10
c1110
ml-deployment10
refactor10
c1710
i2c10
keras10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
sys10
computer-vision10
embedded10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
DexterInd/GoPiGo
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
The GoPiGo Robot for Raspberry Pi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 103 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Robert focused on enhancing the IR remote control functionality within the GoPiGo robot project. They implemented an IR server as a service, refactored and renamed directories for the LIRC module, and removed unnecessary dependencies. The user also made improvements to the existing code. They also debugged, corrected and refactored the di_ir_reader.py file.
raspberry-pigopigostemroboticsrobotics-programming
DexterInd/GrovePi
Apr 2017 - Jun 2019
GrovePi is an open source platform for connecting Grove Sensors to the Raspberry Pi.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:165 commits, 65 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Robert refactored the base I2C library, improving code structure, readability, and maintainability. They focused on code quality by using static functions and variables to restrict access, employing more adequate data types, adding better documentation, and removing global variables and defines to prevent potential conflicts. The changes involved modifying and improving the C library functions used by the GrovePi to communicate with various sensors.
grovepiraspberry-pigrove-sensorsgrovepi-boardiot
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