Vladimir Kerkez
Principal Software Engineer at Udemy
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVladimir Kerkez is a Principal Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of professional experience building mobile and backend systems across startups and scale-ups. He has led Android product initiatives from the first app launches to enterprise-grade releases and scaled backend reporting and search features at Pandora before moving to platform engineering at Udemy. Vlad blends a strong systems and UI/graphics background—spanning 2D/3D graphics, C++/Qt, and modern mobile UI work—with hands-on leadership managing distributed teams across Europe and North America. He’s driven projects that touch hardware and real-time data (from sensor and video work to seismic data capture), reflecting a comfort with both low-level systems and consumer-facing applications. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions, he brings a mix of product focus, cross-platform mobile expertise, and a curiosity for novel interfaces and visual systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at California State University - East Bay
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (75)
diffusion-models10
text-to-speech10
image-generation10
chatgpt10
ai10
fine-tuning10
gpt10
llama10
reinforcement-learning10
amd10
cuda10
pytorch10
inference10
llm10
deepspeed10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vladrad/TwitchClone
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
vladrad/TrieTree
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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