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Dexter Fernandes

@dexterfernandes

Lead Software Engineer - AI at LivNSense Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Bengaluru, IN

LivNSense Technologies Pvt. Ltd.Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

Dexter Fernandes is a skilled AI and Machine Learning professional with experience in developing and deploying real-time object detection systems. He has expertise in the full ML lifecycle, including dataset curation, model training, and optimization for edge devices. Dexter has a proven track record of significantly improving system performance, such as reducing model training time and increasing annotator throughput in industrial settings.

Experience

Lead Software Engineer - AI

LivNSense Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Oct 2021 - PresentBengaluru

Led development of advanced AI solutions, including ViCAS (Safety-based Anti-Collision Early Detection System) and COVIPS (Mask Identification Model). Key achievements include reducing model training time from 2.5 days to 4 hours, increasing annotator throughput from 600 to 3000 images per day, and optimizing inference time from 225 ms to 55 ms. Responsible for deploying real-time object detection models on edge devices and managing large datasets (20,000+ images).

Software Engineer - Python

LivNSense Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Aug 2020 - Sep 2021Bengaluru

AI Vision Intern

LivNSense Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

May 2020 - Aug 2020Bengaluru

Education

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

B. Tech

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2016 - Jan 2020

Management Head at Tesla Club of Innovation – Electric Vehicle Racing Club; Event Organizer at Axis 2018 – College Technical Festival

Licenses & Certifications

Deep Learning Specialization

deeplearning.ai

• No expiration

Skills

Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Dataset curation and debugging
Data Visualization
QA Testing
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Python 3
Sci-kit Learn
OpenCV
Intel OpenVINO
Pandas
Matplotlib
CVAT