Tushar Pawar

My love for Computer Vision started a few years ago when I used to build image manipulation tools in Matlab. Started with toy problems such as number plate detection in images of cars, face detection and image character recognition for number plates using template matching technique. Slowly the projects started to grow bigger and the problems required more than just a naive image processing approach. Thats when I moved to Python and OpenCV library to do much more complex manipulation to images. Over the years, I have built and deployed multiple computer vision based solutions which include deep learning based optical character recognition for transcription of scanned document images. This project consisted of image cleaning and noise removal, and a neural network built in Tensorflow to make character by character predictions. This project achieved higher accuracy that Tesseract OCR engine which is considered the best open-source library for the task. I am currently working on a facial recognition system that will be integrated with security surveillance systems to identify people for access management and threat detection.

I have been working on various projects written from sctratch in Python. I strive to not only write the code to get the job done, but also to make it more readable and maintanable. Stritly follow PEP8 coding conventions. I am able to impliment complex algorithms in Python and write documentation for all the code I write for any project.

My daily work includes implimenting deep learning algorithms in Python, making end user applications and deploying them to cloud. These deep learning solutions are fast, robust and scalable.

All the projects that I work on is version controlled using the git tool. My expertise in git has helped me in fast prototyping of ideas while development. It has also helped me manage several projects which are being developed in a team and use of git facilitated in team collaboration. Checkout my github profile at https://github.com/Backalla/ for more info on my projects

C++ was my first programming language which introduced me to the world of competitive programming. It was my language of choice while I used to solve complex mathematical algorithms and data structures problems on Hackerrank, SPOJ, UVA etc. Competed in ACM ICPC 2016 and also won many online competitive programming contests.

I have developed and deployed many deep learning models for end users using Amazon Web Services which includes S3 for data storage, EC2 for computation and web hosting and SQS for managing request and response queues.