
Konstantin Lvovich Tolskiy
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Redmond, WA, United States
Toptal member since September 28, 2020
Konstantin is a senior programmer with over 20 years of progressive software development and research experience in the fields of 3D graphics, machine learning, graph theory, and so on. Along with having a strong analytical/mathematical background, Konstantin is the author of 12 scientific papers that primarily focus on numerical methods.
Portfolio
Experience
- Calculus - 20 years
- C++ - 20 years
- Image Processing - 5 years
- Python 3 - 5 years
- NVIDIA CUDA - 4 years
- Maps - 4 years
- C++17 - 3 years
- Deep Learning - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Android, Linux, Windows, Game Development, Lua, Finance, Image Classification
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on was a Python script that created and visualized depth maps based on 2D pictures.
Work Experience
Senior Reviewer
Outlier
- Trained LLMs, mostly in the field of mathematics and physics.
- Created challenging prompts that made models fail.
- Reviewed responses, wrote sample responses, and found ground truth.
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
- Decreased Teams rendering power consumption by 40%.
- Created a subsystem for image dumping, which simplifies the debugging process.
- Modified the telemetry system for black and frozen frames detection.
Software Engineer IV (Contract)
Facebook Reality Labs
- Designed and implemented software for AR/VR research and 3D scene reconstruction.
- Checked the quality of reconstruction using Ray tracing.
- Accelerated tests by 400% without losing quality as well as incorporating additional tests.
- Converted code from Nvidia CUDA GPUs to Intel CPUs.
Senior 3D Software Engineer
Allign Tegnology
- Developed new features for orthodontics and the UI for parameter control.
- Optimized shapes of the features to create the best experience for patients.
- Improved the performance and quality of 3D mesh generation.
Software Engineer
Bitanimate
- Built depth maps based on 2D pictures using machine leaning.
- Developed stereo landscape visualizations based on NASA WorldWind and parsed using Open3D building data.
- Created stereo landscape visualizations based on Google Earth.
Software Engineer IV
Mentor Graphics
- Designed and implemented an algorithm for finding cutting pairs in linear time.
- Developed an algorithm for finding separation pairs in linear time.
- Composed an algorithm that discovers cutting triplets in near linear time.
- Improved heuristics for graph-coloring algorithms.
Software Developer
ESRI
- Designed and implemented 2D and 3D visualization systems for GIS.
- Built optimization structures for a data exchange which resulted in a 1000% acceleration.
- Implemented the dynamic creation of 3D objects and developed effective methods for their selection.
Senior Software Development Engineer
AMD
- Designed and implemented an application that collects information from graphics libraries wrappers and processes and visualizes it, with features for setting graphic state overloads and bottleneck analysis through frame rate changes.
- Developed shader debuggers. This work included patching shaders and mapping between the Assembler and HLSL codes.
- Ported data collectors from Windows desktops to embedded platforms (Windows CE and Embedded Linux) and wrote OpenCL samples.
Software Engineer
Bancware, Inc. (subdivision of Sungard, Inc.)
- Developed, supported, and debugged code and algorithms for the financial simulation (Bancware AML).
- Implemented Monte Carlo and deterministic simulations for cash flows, market values, and schedules for instruments like options, mortgages, bonds, and CMOs.
- Performed evolution of various libraries, code reviews, and performance tuning.
Experience
Creation of Depth Maps Based on 2D Pictures
Video Separation
Education
Master of Science Degree in Physics
Lomonosov Moscow State University - Moscow, Russia
Certifications
Machine Learning
Stanford University | via Coursera
Skills
Libraries/APIs
OpenGL, TensorFlow, OpenCV, DirectX, WebGL
Tools
Microsoft Visual C++, Splunk, GIS, Visual Studio, VTune, NVIDIA Nsight Systems, Direct3D
Languages
C++, C, Python, C++17, Python 3, Java, C#, Lua, SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Anomaly Detection
Platforms
Windows, Linux, NVIDIA CUDA, Azure, Android, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Frameworks
.NET
Other
Linear Algebra, Numerical Methods, Calculus, Windows 10, Multithreading, GPU Computing, Mathematics, Prototyping, Code Review, Graphs, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Maps, Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Vision, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Game Development, Statistics, Architecture, Software Architecture, Semiconductors, AI Model Training, Image Classification, Image Manipulation, Data Processing, Server Infrastructure, Video Encoding, Finance, Monte Carlo, Industrials, Large Language Models (LLMs), Text to Image AI
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