DRONE-TECH · ML · 3D VISUALIZATION Open to opportunities

Mykola Startsev

Drone-tech Engineer & Computer Vision

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About

Drone-tech engineer combining 2+ years of hands-on UAV operations with software engineering, computer vision, and 3D visualization. Currently completing my BSc in Software Engineering at SUICT, with a thesis on real-time landmine detection using on-device YOLOv8 (Android + DJI SDK).

Looking for Junior Software Engineer / ML Engineer / Drone Software roles in Prague or EU remote. Open to defense-tech, drone startups, computer vision, and 3D pipeline work.

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Work Experience

Sep 2025
May 2026
SUICT · Software Eng.

Lead Developer — MineDetector

mAP@50 = 0.776 · 2 papers published

Built an Android application for UAV-based real-time landmine detection. Integrated DJI Mobile SDK v4 for live drone video stream, trained YOLOv8n on a custom dataset of 5 anti-personnel mine types (PMN-2, MON-50, POM-3, PFM-1, PMN-1), quantized to TFLite float16 for on-device inference. Integrated Mapbox SDK for geo-tagging and threat map rendering. Architecture: Kotlin + MVVM.

KotlinAndroid MVVMYOLOv8 TFLiteComputer VisionDJI SDK MapboxPython
Oct 2023
Aug 2025
SkyPilots

UAV Instructor

Hands-on instructor — trained military, civilian, and humanitarian-demining personnel from SES (DSNS), MAG, and HALO Trust. Core focus: thermal-imaging surveys for landmine and UXO detection using DJI Mavic 3T with thermal payload — mission planning, flight ops, drone maintenance, pre-flight checks, RF systems. Also delivered FPV theory and simulator-based training (Liftoff) as part of the curriculum.

UAV TrainingThermal Imaging Mission PlanningMavic 3T Humanitarian DeminingFPV (Sim)
Apr 2025
Kropyvnytskyi City Council

3D Visualizer

3D visualization of 65,000 m² sports complex renovation. 1,300+ drone photos with DJI Mavic 2 Pro, 3D terrain model via WebODM + Docker. PBR textures, Corona Renderer photoreal results.

3ds MaxCorona Renderer PhotogrammetryWebODM
ArtStation
Nov 2023
DUIKT

3D Tour Creator

Interactive 3D campus tour from DJI Mavic 2 Pro 360° panoramas. Stitched in Photoshop, assembled in Pano2VR, deployed on university website.

360° PhotographyPano2VR Adobe Photoshop
View 3D Tour
Feb 2024
TCTdesign

Operator & Videomaker

Filmed and edited house presentation for architectural studio. DJI Osmo Mobile 3, edited in Premiere Pro — music, transitions, color correction. Used for Instagram + YouTube portfolio.

VideographyPremiere ProColor Grading
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Self‑Initiative
Personal Project

DJI Tello Python Controller

Python + Pygame app for DJI Tello drone control: Wi-Fi connection, flight controls, live video streaming, keyboard command processing via djitellopy SDK.

PythonPygame DJI Tello SDKHardware Control
2022 — 2023
AutoLab · Team Project

UI/UX Designer — Admin Panel

Designed admin panel UI/UX for AutoLab — a Telegram bot system for automated grading of Python lab assignments. Built Figma mockups for assignment management, student tracking, grading workflows, and statistics dashboards. Worked as part of a startup-stage team during my first year of university.

FigmaUI/UX Design Design SystemsTeam Project
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Education

Bachelor's in Software Engineering

State University of Information and Communication Technologies (SUICT)

Group ТЦР-42 · Department of Software Engineering

BSc Thesis: "MineDetector — UAV-Based Real-Time Landmine Detection System Using Computer Vision" · mAP@50 = 0.776
Sep 2022
Jun 2026
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Skills & Expertise

Drones & UAV

UAV Instruction Drone Piloting FPV Flight Cartography Mission Planning

Photo / Video

Aerial Photography Videography Adobe Premiere Pro DaVinci Resolve Photoshop / Lightroom

3D & Visualization

3D Visualization 3D Modeling 3ds Max + Corona Cinema 4D + RedShift Unreal Engine

Programming

Python Kotlin Android Dev (MVVM) HTML5 / CSS3 / JS Git · Docker

ML & Computer Vision

TensorFlow Lite YOLOv8 OpenCV Machine Learning LLM Integration

SDKs & Tools

DJI Mobile SDK v4 DJI Tello SDK Mapbox SDK WebODM Figma
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Languages

Ukrainian
Native
Russian
Native
English
B1
Czech
B1