Boris Capitanu
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at ASAPP
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBoris Capitanu is a seasoned machine learning engineer and technical leader, currently a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at ASAPP, where he combines hands-on ML work with scalable software delivery. Based in Champaign, Illinois, he brings 13 years of experience spanning research programming at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Illinois Informatics Institute to industry-scale software initiatives. He holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from UIUC, plus an MBA and an MS in Human Resources and Industrial Relations, reflecting a rare blend of technical depth and people-focused strategy. Earlier in his career, he redesigned EdTech applications at EdTech Group/UIUC and led software engineering at NuPaper Software, demonstrating versatility across academia, startups, and enterprise. He is known for quick learning, strategic thinking, teamwork, and the ability to deliver under pressure, with a track record of turning complex requirements into modular, extensible systems. In his current role, he focuses on building robust ML systems at scale, translating research insights into practical product impact.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of BusinessUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Romanian, French
Github Skills (200)
arabic-nlp10
lda10
command-line-tool10
auth010
acs10
topic-modeling10
corenlp10
nlp10
sbt-plugin10
sentence-embeddings10
gensim10
oauth210
openid-connect10
package-manager10
keycloak10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
htrc/HTRC-EF-RsyncGenerator
Aug 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 28 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 8 months
htrc/HTRC-FeatureExtractor
Aug 2016 - May 2024
Extracts features (token counts, POS tags, etc.) from a list of HT volumes, to aid in non-consumptive research.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 5 PRs in 7 years 10 months
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