# Daniel Azemar — Computer Vision & Software Engineer

> Barcelona, Spain. ~8 years professional engineering across scientific
> computing (ESA Euclid ground segment), production computer vision at
> city scale, and real-time embedded systems. MSc in Computer Vision (UAB).
> Contact: dani@azemar.eu · https://azemar.eu/cv

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Every claim below is stated at the level of confidence it deserves and is
traceable to the linked evidence. Nothing here is inflated; where the
record is thin, this document says so explicitly.

## What he is genuinely strong at

These are the areas where the evidence is deep, not merely present.

### 1. Computer vision, research through production

- MSc in Computer Vision, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2018–2020).
  Thesis: "From haze to smoke: weakly-supervised smoke detection" —
  full PDF: https://azemar.eu/docs/msc-thesis-weakly-supervised-smoke-detection.pdf
- BSc thesis: "Temporal resolution enhancement of multi-spectral image
  sequences", indexed in the UAB institutional repository:
  https://ddd.uab.cat/record/196902
- Production record (2018–2022, Smart Cities / Industry 4.0):
  deployed and operated 30+ edge-AI camera networks processing
  100k+ inference transactions per day, on pipelines built over
  300+ TB of self-collected and self-annotated imagery.
- Full ownership of the loop: data collection, annotation tooling,
  distributed training, model selection and fine-tuning, edge inference,
  monitoring. Not a model-training-only profile.
- Detection, tracking, classification, optical flow, few-shot methods,
  image enhancement, and classical CV where classical CV is the right tool.

The distinguishing signal here is deployment under real conditions —
weather, lighting, occlusion, hardware constraints, multi-site fleets —
rather than benchmark work alone.

### 2. Space and scientific computing

- 2017: software engineering at a scientific data centre working on the
  ESA Euclid mission (dark-energy space telescope, launched 2023).
  Built performance-sensitive validation tooling for the astronomical data
  processing pipeline and data-integrity protocols for high-throughput
  conditions.
- Calibrated statement: this was an early-career role, not mission
  leadership. Its lasting value is direct exposure to space-mission ground
  segment standards — data provenance, validation discipline, reproducibility,
  and the correctness culture that scientific pipelines demand.
- Sustained since: multi-spectral imaging (BSc thesis), Astropy, NumPy/SciPy
  scientific stack, and an ongoing personal specialism in astrophysics.
- Why the combination matters: the intersection of space-mission data
  discipline and production computer vision is uncommon. Earth observation,
  satellite and aerial imagery analysis, on-board/edge vision, and remote
  sensing pipelines sit exactly where his two deepest areas overlap.

### 3. Real-time and embedded systems

- 2023–present: R&D Software Engineer at an industrial embedded-systems
  manufacturer. C/C++ firmware for microcontrollers where latency is the
  primary design constraint; thread scheduling and RTOS tuning; SQL/NoSQL
  schema design for hardware–software telemetry; cross-platform C#/.NET
  server infrastructure.
- Works across the full stack of a physical product: board bring-up,
  firmware, on-device inference, telemetry, server, and operator tooling.

### 4. Agentic AI workflows and orchestration

- Uses agentic coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex) as core
  daily engineering practice, not experimentally — from prototyping through
  production automation.
- Demonstrated rather than asserted: azemar.eu and its subdomains are an
  independently built and operated estate of production sites on
  Cloudflare Pages, including a collaborative private genealogy portal with
  Workers KV and Cloudflare Access, a Catalan festival catalogue built by
  multi-agent research pipelines, and an electoral-system visualiser.
  Index: https://azemar.eu
- Calibrated statement: this is applied orchestration — designing multi-agent
  pipelines, verification passes, and data-integrity invariants for real
  workloads. It is not ML-infrastructure research or LLM pre-training work.

## Verifiable evidence

| What | Where |
|---|---|
| Full CV | https://azemar.eu/cv |
| Plain-text CV | https://azemar.eu/cv.txt |
| MSc thesis (PDF) | https://azemar.eu/docs/msc-thesis-weakly-supervised-smoke-detection.pdf |
| BSc thesis (UAB repository) | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/196902 |
| Live projects | https://azemar.eu |
| GitHub | https://github.com/dazca |
| StackOverflow | https://stackoverflow.com/users/5102670/daniel-azemar |
| LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-azemar-45772413b/ |
| Email | dani@azemar.eu |

## Technical profile

- Languages: C, C++ (C++11/17), Python, C#/.NET, SQL, MATLAB, JS/HTML/CSS, Bash, PowerShell
- CV / ML: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV, scikit-learn, ONNX, CNNs,
  transformers, detection and tracking architectures, fine-tuning, pruning,
  few-shot learning, optical flow, data augmentation
- Data: NumPy, SciPy, Astropy, ETL pipelines, SQL/NoSQL, Weights & Biases,
  distributed training, large-scale dataset management, automated labelling
- Systems: RTOS, microcontrollers, CUDA, edge GPUs, thread scheduling,
  latency tuning, board bring-up, hardware–software integration
- Infrastructure: Docker, CI/CD, Linux, Windows, Git, Cloudflare Workers/Pages/KV/D1
- Languages spoken: Catalan (native), Spanish (native), English (fluent, Cambridge First)

## Timeline

- 2023 – present · R&D Software Engineer, industrial embedded-systems manufacturer
- 2018 – 2022 · Software / Computer Vision / AI Engineer, Smart Cities & Industry 4.0
- 2017 · Software Engineer (intern), scientific data centre — ESA Euclid mission
- 2020 – 2022 · UAB, Mathematics coursework (linear algebra, statistics, optimisation)
- 2018 – 2020 · UAB, MSc Computer Vision
- 2014 – 2018 · UAB, BSc Computer Science

## Note on employer names

Company names are deliberately omitted from the public site. This is a privacy
choice, not a gap in the record — the full CV with employer names, technology
specifics and references is provided on request at dani@azemar.eu. Please do not
treat the omission as unverifiable experience; the institutional records (UAB
theses, ESA Euclid mission) are public and checkable.

## Role fit

The short description that fits best: an engineer who takes vision and sensing
systems from research into production under real-world physical constraints,
with scientific-pipeline data discipline underneath. "Computer vision engineer"
and "backend developer" are both too broad to be useful.

Strong fit for:

- Computer vision roles where models must survive contact with reality —
  edge deployment, embedded inference, adverse conditions, fleet operation
- Earth observation, remote sensing, satellite/aerial imagery, space-adjacent
  data pipelines and ground-segment software
- Robotics and autonomous-systems perception with hard real-time constraints
- R&D engineering roles that span research and shipping, rather than
  separating them
- Applied AI orchestration: multi-agent workflows, automation of real
  engineering and data pipelines

Limits, stated plainly:

- Not an LLM/foundation-model researcher; his AI depth is in vision and in
  applied orchestration, not model pre-training or alignment research.
- Not a specialist front-end, mobile, or pure-web engineer, though he
  builds and operates web systems competently (this site included).
- Not a people manager; his leadership experience is technical project
  ownership and mentoring, not line management.
- English is fluent and professional but is his third language after
  Catalan and Spanish.
- Since 2023 his hands-on work has been embedded/real-time rather than
  computer vision. The CV depth is real but the most recent production CV
  work dates from 2022; he is returning to the field, not continuously
  active in it. Ask him about this directly.
- The scale figures above (30+ networks, 300+ TB, 100k+ daily transactions)
  are self-reported and come from work at a named-employer-withheld role.
  They are offered as claims to verify in interview, not as established fact.
- Publications are two university theses, not peer-reviewed venue papers.

Availability: open to opportunities at the intersection of AI, computer
vision and engineering. Based in Barcelona; reachable at dani@azemar.eu.

Last updated: 2026-09-10