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I own internal release and test service at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, currently a release platform distributing drivers and firmware for hardware, including next-generation GPU and AI server platforms. My path is unusual: PhD in biometrics, years of optics, embedded and camera system design, then machine vision products, and now cloud release engineering. I'm most useful where hardware meets software: places where someone needs to understand the sensor, the firmware, the pipeline and the service on top of it. What I keep coming back to: taking ownership of a critical system, bringing new engineers up to independence on it, and moving to the next problem. Lately that includes building agentic LLM workflows for large-scale legacy test migration.
𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 (current focus) • Own development and support of a FastAPI web service distributing drivers, firmware and platform tools for OCI hardware, deployed via Docker with an Nginx reverse proxy; contribute across backend (Python), HTML templates and JavaScript front-end components. • Designed and built the firmware ingestion pipeline for next-generation GPU and AI server platforms: integrity verification, antivirus scanning, storage to OCI Object Storage and Artifactory, and OCI Notifications triggering downstream build systems. • Migrated the firmware packaging workflow from a legacy service and extended it into the platform's main firmware upload path. • Introduced unit testing to a previously untested codebase 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 (first year, ownership handed off) • Gradually assumed ownership for regression testing and release validation for OCI's host management platform, covering network and AI accelerator cards (update, provisioning and status workflows). • Designed an agentic LLM migration framework (workflow definitions, rule files, format and validation conventions, differential test harnesses running legacy and migrated tests against each other) to automate migration of a Python 2.7 test suite to modern Python and pytest. Ongoing initiative.
• Led mentoring and technical direction alongside core development: mentored junior developers, supervised a bachelor's thesis, delivered a university guest lecture on RFID and ran internal workshops on biometrics and Python. • Core developer of a Python/PySide machine-vision application for visual programming, image calibration and shared library integration. • Designed a WebSocket interface enabling RFID integration with third-party APIs; contributed to architecture of a cloud-based RFID middleware platform, including technology evaluations for identity management and health monitoring services. • Owned Jenkins CI/CD covering multi-platform builds, licensing, packaging and distribution; initiated build pipeline hardening and software protection integration.
Succesfully defended my thesis titled: New technologies for biometric recognition based on hand characteristics Focusing on on-the-fly biometric recognition. https://www.fit.vut.cz/study/phd-thesis/965/.cs?type=PD
Development of software products and tools which interact with and process data from embedded applications. Development of UI's for 2D and 3D Visualisation including machine vision/machine learning processes. Development of machine vision algorithms for measurement and visualisation. GUI Maintenance and Development: Maintenance of existing control and configuration GUIs including enhancements and bug fixing.
Design and implementation of a triggered camera system solution for biometric application - Optical design of the camera system - Electronics (Triggering, illuminantion control, control board) - SW programming (Triggering, illuminantion control, camera control) Rapid prototyping