Focal Systems is a deep learning and computer vision company solving some of the biggest problems in retail. Founded by Stanford alumni and part of YC’s winter 2016 batch, the company has since grown considerably and developed products to tackle continuous out-of-stock detection and scalable automated checkout.
• Joined as one of the first engineers and helped build the company from the ground up.
• Architected, built, and deployed a user experience platform to hundreds of IoT devices used by thousands of customers every day in major retail chains. The system was designed to run Deep Learning models with a small memory footprint on device.
• Deployed an IoT platform for data acquisition in retail environments, which captured millions of images across clients’ stores and converted them into real-time, actionable insights to improve shoppers' experiences, reduce operating costs, and drive sales.
• Led a multidisciplinary team to research and develop checkout automation for retail. Planned the project development and deployment, and designed the system architecture.