# Ivan Fransazov

> Forward Deployed Engineer @ Pepper

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ivanfransazov

Software engineer with experience in high-performance computing, scientific research, mathematical modeling leveraging AWS services. 

Strong academic coursework in applied mathematics and computer science, with practical experience in parallel and distributed systems, computer vision, and machine learning. Co-author of a peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 

I'm interested in Machine Learning and Computer Vision. I'm passionate about agriculture, conservation, and infrastructure. If you have any work or projects you want to share in this intersection please reach out, always happy to chat!

Technical skills: C, C++, Python, Java, MySQL | CUDA, TensorFlow, Pandas, Numpy, OpenCV, Vitis HLS | AWS (S3, EC2, EKS, IAM), Linux, Git

## Work Experience
### Forward Deployed Engineer @ Pepper
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ ASO Engineering
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
• Designed and developed the company’s infrastructure to run on AWS using EC2, S3, and IAM
• Utilized AWS SDK (Boto3) to programmatically handle instance management for product service
• Investigated the transient multi-physics simulator, and transferred C++ code to run on AWS FPGA instances using Vitis HLS

### Research Associate @ Swarthmore College
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
• Upgraded existing code to automate large-scale simulations on Swarthmore’s research compute cluster, Strelka
• Refined model parameters of the MSO neuron to achieve behavior recorded in lab environments
• Co-authored and revised manuscript that has been published in the Journal of Computational Neuroscience, it is available as an open-access article linked below


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
Swarthmore College

### High School Diploma
The Overlake School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ivan-fransazov
- GitHub: https://github.com/ifransazov

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Last updated: 2026-04-13