About

Áron Virginás-Tar is a highly skilled and experienced Staff Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in software development. He is proficient in modern C++ and competent in Python and several other programming languages, with a good general understanding of technology. Áron has a passion for science and technology and is a keen and continuous learner. Áron has 3 years of experience contributing to open source machine learning tools and optimization techniques targeted towards Linux and Android. He has also worked for over a year in the automotive industry on the sensing tier of ADAS and automated driving systems. In addition, he has over 3 years of experience in the area of classical computer vision and image processing. Áron holds an M.Eng. in Information Technology, an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Computing, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science. He is fluent in 4 natural languages: English, German, Hungarian, and Romanian. Currently, Áron is a Staff Software Engineer - GPU at Arm, working within the Platform Integration (PInT) team. He is mainly focused on integrating the Mali DDK with Android. Prior to this, he worked as a Staff Software Engineer - ML in the Machine Learning Group at Arm, contributing model optimization and compression techniques to the TensorFlow Model Optimization Toolkit and reference kernel implementations to TensorFlow Lite. He was also involved in the development of Python-based middleware facilitating the evaluation of ML models on various hardware IP. Áron was also a Senior Software Engineer - ML at Arm, where he was a key contributor to Arm NN, an open-source inference engine that enables machine learning workloads on Arm Cortex CPUs, Mali GPUs, and Ethos NPUs. Áron's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Senior Software Engineering, ML, Android, Computer Vision, Image Processing, TensorFlow, Python, Integration, and Neural Networks. With over 11 years of relevant experience, Áron is a valuable asset to any team he is a part of.