Cristian Panaitescu

Software Engineer — Computational Imaging & Computer Vision

📍 Bucharest, Romania

📞 +40 740 878 117

✉️ cristian.panaitescu24@gmail.com

Summary

Software engineer specializing in computational photography, computer vision, and high-performance imaging on embedded devices. Focused on camera algorithms, real-time processing, and low-level GPU/CPU optimizations for products shipped in millions of smartphones.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer — Tobii

2022–2024

Worked on internal data-acquisition frameworks used in research for eye-tracking and motion analysis.

Software Engineer & Senior Software Engineer — Xperi Inc. (FotoNation)

2016–2022

Developed computational photography features deployed commercially in flagship smartphones.

Software Engineering Intern — Ubisoft Bucharest

2015

Worked on internal tools and rendering modules for game development.

Education

Publication

“A Voting Approach for Image Binarization of Text-Based Documents.” U.P.B. Scientific Bulletin, Series C, 81(3), 2019.

Technical Skills

C/C++, OpenGL, Computer Vision, Computational Photography, Image Processing, Embedded Systems, Android NDK, GPU/CPU Optimization, Real-Time 2D/3D pipelines, Low-level memory management, Neural Network Inference on Edge Devices