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  Location: Brooklyn, NY
  Remote: Yes (US), Hybrid (NYC)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Availability: Full-time / contract
  Technologies:
    Languages:  C/C++, Python, TypeScript, Kotlin, Java, VHDL, SystemVerilog
    Embedded:   STM32, ESP32, PowerPC, ARM, iCE40UP5k, Artix 7
    ML/AI:      TFLM, PyTorch, LiteRT, ExecuTorch, ONNX, OpenCV
    Wireless:   BLE, WiFi, LoRa, MQTT
    Agentic:    LangGraph, CrewAI, RAG, MCP, A2A
    PCB:        Mixed-signal, RF
  Resume: https://datameta.info/Daniel_Melnikov_Resume.pdf
  Portfolio: https://datameta.info
  Email: dm@datameta.info
Hi, I'm Daniel, R&D engineer at the physical/sensing/compute/inference boundaries. Freelance since Jan 2025: most recently an agentic pipeline for a healthcare startup that adheres to HIPAA and is deterministically prevented from accessing restricted data.

Sole inventor on a pending patent for an indoor localization system with SoTA estimation accuracy in GPS-denied and off-grid environments, where nothing is sent to the cloud.

Before that, IBM: memory controller firmware for POWER servers, and chip-op firmware and bringup/test software for the Z17 mainframe processor. That included a chip-op that cut scanchain verification time by 17% in AWAN simulation. Earlier: a Python computer vision backend for shelf sensors, live at the CVS Manhattan flagship in 2019/2020, and an embedded C++ environmental sensor package still running in several NJ warehouses since 2017.

Personal project: Movement Voltage turns hand pose into control voltage. Stereo camera tracks a hand, an RPi4 turns the landmarks into distances, and 0-5V comes out through an I2C->DAC->jacks board I designed and soldered, into a eurorack synth. Full writeup and photo on the portfolio.



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