# Andrew Polican > Senior Software Engineer Location: Phoenix, Arizona, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewpolican I have broad set of software development experience including Deep Learning, Web Programming, 3D Graphics, Desktop Applications, Embedded Systems, and more. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Stealth Mode Jan 2024 – Present ### Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Digitile Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Phoenix, Arizona, United States [ E-Commerce Listing AI ] Built an AI system with ChatGPT to automate writing product listing pages [ Product Thumbnail Generation AI ] Developed method to intelligently generate new image backgrounds for product listings [ Fashion Product Classification AI ] Built a zero shot visual system to identify clothing/accessories in an image and label their style, color, material, ect ### Senior Backend Software Engineer @ Digitile Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Phoenix, Arizona, United States As owner of the backend, I handle all new features, bug fixes, and admin tasks. I also do all of our DevOps including our CI/CD pipeline, network configs, and serverless deployments. [ 3rd Party Integration Services ] - Inherited and developed integration services for Dropbox and Google Drive that continuously synced data into our system for customers - Improved performance of Dropbox service by 600% [ File Ingestion Pipeline ] - Refactored file download, file conversion, and image thumbnailing pipeline to use in house services instead of 3rd party APIs - Lowered expenses and raised throughput by deploying as serverless [ ElasticSearch Upgrade/Migration ] - Led the upgrade of our system to new ElasticSearch schemas and refactored system to have a single source of truth ### Solutions Architect @ Aptus Engineering, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Scottsdale, Arizona [ Handwritten Signature Matching ] Trained deep learning model and wrote microservice to match handwritten signatures on document to their most likely author, achieved 90% accuracy. Used Tensorflow, Python, and Rust [ AI Construction Project Estimation Software ] Solutions Architect on browser based project estimation and blueprint editing software. Responsible for taking product from initial idea through development into production. Developed around half of the front-end features, entire api + microservices, as well as details of UI design. Used Node.js, React, Express, MongoDB, and Stratum. [ 3D Medical Animation Tool ] Architect on project to add animation capability to in-house medical 3D modelling software. Led team of 4 developers, responsible for architectural design as well as front end development. Used C++, OpenGL. [ Drivers License Parser ] Wrote a tool in 2 weeks that extracts name, address, ect. from drivers licenses. Used Python, OpenCV, Numpy. [ Deep Learning MRI Injury Detection System ] Core developer on project for diagnosing injuries from raw MRI scans. Handled system architecture, wrote initial research prototype, oversaw development, testing, and delivery of final product. Managed machine learning development team. Resulted in 2 peer reviewed publications, with 3 in review. Currently shepherding product through FDA approval. Used Python, Tensorflow/Keras, Numpy [ Document Classification AI ] Built automated document classification prototype. Used image and text features with gradient boosted forests, deep learning, and NLP techniques for classification, keyword extraction, and priority classification and LSTMs for handwriting recognition. [ Semantic Text Extraction ] Completely refactored text extraction system for medical reports; added regex extraction and k-means clustering for semantic parsing. ### Software Engineer II @ Benchmark Electronics Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Scottsdale, Arizona Designed and developed software tools for simulation and testing of IoT devices and wrote algorithms for 3D location/ranging. Python on Ubuntu Linux. Developed a manufacturing software image with REST API for nerve ablation machine as well as bug fixes and features. Wind River Linux with C++ with Qt, Python for unit tests. Wrote manufacturing tests with for a portable defibrillator with Python. ### Machine Learning Intern @ Cactus Materials Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Tempe, Arizona Developed a biometric identification system using vital sign data and a proprietary sensor. Personally developed the prototype, complete with a web API, mobile app, and machine learning algorithms on the backend. Used KNN, Random Forests, and Nearest Centroid as our classifiers, frequency decomposition and fiducial points as features, and PCA for dimensionality reduction. ### Research Assistant @ Mayo Clinic Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Phoenix, Arizona Area I maintained and refactored the existing Python codebase for the Precision Neuro-Theraputics Lab at the Phoenix Mayo Clinic campus. Specifically I reviewed code written by other researchers and made it more stable, more efficient, and easier to configure. Technologies used include VTK for 3D MRI reconstruction, SimpleITK for 3D image registration, and custom libraries for database access. ### Research Assistant @ Cyber-Socio Intelligent Systems (CySIS) Lab, ASU Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Tempe, Arizona Worked with lab to write pluggable modules for gathering information about security threats on the dark web and other relevant sources. Also brought existing modules up to date with latest libraries and data formats. My code’s quality was high enough that I transitioned to writing my thesis under the head of the lab, Dr. Shakarian. Worked in Python on Ubuntu Linux. ### Research Assistant @ Texas State University Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Marcos, Texas I worked with professors and other students to review relevant literature and produce novel research in Internet of Things technology and created prototypes of mobile frameworks. ### Research Assistant @ Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Tempe, Arizona I helped graduate students and professors with their research in commercial hardware interfacing. ### IT Intern @ Food for the Hungry, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Solving IT problems alongside company engineers. ## Education ### BSE in Computer Systems Engineering Arizona State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrew-polican-119836a0 - GitHub: https://github.com/rwandaPinocle --- Source: https://flows.cv/andrewpolican JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andrewpolican/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30