Ofer
Achler
Experienced Technologist
Chief Technical Officer — Xsight Systems
What I do best
Through many years of experience, I've always loved to empart knowledge and be part of a team.
I've managed software teams, hardware teams (mechanical and electrical), and outsourced software teams.
I know how to make my teams happy and productive.
I'm always looking at the latest and greatest. If it's learning Go or running new neural networks in my spare time, looking at new embedded devices, or teaching myself about home automation, I pride myself on knowing about tech.
Being team leader has allowed me to grow many engineers from entry level to professional and beyond. I make sure the team is balanced and capable by encouraging communication and ideas to flow.
Technical Knowledge
Specialties:
- Computer vision
- Machine learning
- Neural Networks (AI)
- Algorithms
- Systems architecture
- Software Engineering
Skills:
- C# / .Net
- DirectShow / Gstreamer
- SQL
- C++
- Typescript / JavaScript / HTML / CSS
- And more
Job History
Chief Technical Officer
Xsight systems
• Responsible for all server and client software
• Introduced an advanced fusion system
• Responsible for all major architecture changes in server, client, and hardware software
• Advanced system from older technologies into current technologies with a modular architecture
October 2017 – Present
Software Team Leader, Algorithmic Engineer, System Architect
Xsight systems
• Responsible for all server and client software
• Introduced an advanced fusion system
• Responsible for all major architecture changes in server, client, and hardware software
• Advanced system from older technologies into current technologies with a modular architecture
September 2010 – October 2017
Senior Software Engineer
Vigilant Technology
• Initiated, designed, and implemented a new camera based focusing system
• Responsible for all Directshow and video related software
• Oversee all changes to architecture in a large video surveillance system
• Created motion detection software that integrated with legacy systems
November 2008 – September 2010
Senior Software Engineer
Talia Technology
• Designed and implemented new production licensing system
• Designed next-generation software prototype of camera based medical eye scanner
January 2008 – November 2008
Software Engineer
Vertigo Software
• Designed and implemented a billing statement system for a financial software
• Updated Microsoft's Service Oriented programming demonstration software to use then cutting edge libraries like MS Enterprise Libraries and WSE 2.0 SP3
January 2005 – July 2006
Education
Bachelors of Science, Electrical Engineering
2000-2003
University of California, San Diego
Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering
2003 — 2005
University of California, San Diego
• Developed a side view vehicle sensor under both rigid and moving cameras
• Primary designer of the LISA-Q, a vehicle testbed which simultaneously captures video streams, audio streams, and vehicle state sensors
• Set up multiple live video feeds around campus for traffic flow monitoring
• Patent Application for Omnidirectional Real-Time Traffic Flow Analyzer
• Created overhead vehicle traffic flow sensor using an omnidirectional video camera
Published Articles and Awards
- O. Achler and M. M. Trivedi, “Camera Based Vehicle Detection, Tracking, and Wheel Baseline Estimation Approach,” IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation System, Washington DC, October 2004.
- O. Achler and M. M. Trivedi, “Vehicle Wheel Detector using 2D Filter Banks,” Proc. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, , Italy, June 2004.
- O. Achler and M. M. Trivedi, “Real-time traffic flow analysis using omnidirectional video network and flatplane transformation,” Workshop on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Chicago, IL, 2002.
- Awarded UCSD/Cal-(IT)2 Scholarship
Hobbys
Software Projects
I love learning new things so I come up with projects I do in my spare time to learn. I've worked on many projects.
- a media center
- a weather reporting software that uses a software radio to read from wireless weather reporting devices to learn go
- a scanner interface in the web to use to scan from my old scanner
- street map software using C#, OpenGL, GTK, and MySQL
Photography
Whenever we go on trips as a family, I always love making ineresting photos of the famly and places
Shadetree Mechanic
I love mechanical things so I've always tried working on my own cars just to be able to touch the machine and feel that I have a part in making it work.
About me
I'm Ofer, I love the idea of computers seeing and interacting with the world.
To that end, I've always sought working on systems that touch reality. From working on medical devices that literally see into your eyes to working on robotics that track runways.