Oszkar Jozsa
I create the brains of your next car.
Senior engineer, team and technical leader with 8 years experience in computer vision, robotics, machine learning and software engineering.
I have experience in working at multiple different environments from early-stage startup, through mid-size company, goverment institute to multinational corporate job. My current interest are self-driving cars, smart robots and the software that is on them. Recently, I've been also gaining experience in project and people management.
I love clean code, solid architecture, comprehensive documentation (maybe a bit too much). I've been and I am working in many different areas and I don't mind writing code, working on tech roadmaps, hooking up automation tools, hacking together embedded systems, presenting at conferences, going out to field testing, negotiating with business partners or just manage projects on Jira among other things. My strongest suit is possibly the fact that I can get shit done. I am currently leading an organization of about 30 engineers
Experience
Technical Lead
I am leading the self-driving engineering teams at Ascent Robotics, namely the robotics, the sofware and the infrastrucutre teams.
I am involved both in the technical and the operations/management side of the organization. We are currently in hypergrowth mode, I am leading 30+ people in a constantly evolving environment which started as a "team" of 1 less than 2 years ago.
My role covers a wide range of robotics and software development tasks, including:
SW architecture design, helping out ML research, robotics software development, infrastructure setup/maintenance, systems engineering,
self-driving operation management, field testing, code reviewing, roadmap planning and technical hiring.
Senior Robotics Engineer
I was leading a team of 5-7 engineers, developing the core framework of our deep learning and robotics platform. I was working on various self-driving engineering tasks including architecture design, software engineering, robotics, technical hiring and project management. Additional to this, I was also working on financial intelligence projects.
Robotics Engineer
I joined Ascent Robotics as the company's 2nd engineer. I am actively participating in shaping the company ever since them, both on the code/architecture and on the organizational level. My initial tasks involved computer vision and software prototype development, architecture design and tech pitch to investors and potential partners.
Software Engineer
I worked on the then next-generation RoboTaxi, ZMP's self driving platfrom. I mostly worked on computer vision and robotic system software development. I also participated in systems setup, sensor calibation and testing the self-driving car both on the test track and in traffic.
Software Engineer
I developed vision software front-end (Cognex VisionView, Cognex Designer), mostly in C#, TypeScript and JavaScript. I was responsible for HMI framework design and implementation, script parsing, object serialization-deserialization and automatic code generation.
Associate Software Engineer
Research Intern / Contractor
I joined as an intern and stayed at the Academy as a contractor Research Engineer. I was part of the Machine Perception Research Laboratory research group and worked on 2D and 3D computer vision, image processing and 3D object recognition and registration in Point Clouds. Most of my work was related to object detection, segmentation and scene understanding in lidar point clouds.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
Remote studies. It was on hold for a while due to my work commitments. I plan to resume Fall 2018 and finish in 2019.
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
I took a vide array of classes including Electrical and Mechanical Engineering classes to explore my interests. I also won two scholarships (see below).
Florida Institute of Technology
I won an EU scholarship (STARS - Sensing Technology and Robotics Scholarship) to spend a year in the US. During the year I was able to complete all Florida Tech courses that were disjunct from my program and gradudated both at Florida Tech and my home institute.
Aquincum Institute of Technology
I was awarded an opportunity to take courses at Gabor Bojar's private college. I took courses in computer vision, computational biology, enterpreneurship and UX
Skills
- C++
- Python
- C#
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- R
- Computer vision libraries (OpenCV, PCL, PIL)
- TensorFlow, Pytorch and OpenAI tools (gym, baselines)
- Python data science/machine learning stack (numpy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit)
- C++ STL, Boost, Qt
- ROS, OROCOS
- I am equally comfortable on Linux and Windows, use both of them daily
- I mostly use Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. In the past, I've also used Netbeans and Eclipse
- Practical knowlege in machine learning (both traditional methods and modern deep learning, reinforcement learning. I started when SVMs and decision trees were the jam.)
- Experience in writing research papers and patents.
- Basic cloud compute knowledge (both on AWS and GCP)
- Strong sense and preference in well-crafted architecture, beautiful code and comprehensive documentation.
- Famility with modern software management tools (GitHub, BitBucket, Confluence, Jira, LiquidPlanner, Asana, Trac) and automation tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, TeamCity)
- I am a strong team player, I like to work on the architecture level, I like to design structure and connect the pieces instead of just focusing on a piece.
- Not afraid of touching the hardware; writing code for embedded systems, taking robots or vehicles apart, etc.
- I have experience in leadership at a growth stage startup (tech architecture design, business and story planning, bridging the gap betwen research and development, investor and partner relations, office expansions, budgeting. And I also interviewed well over a 100 people so far.)
Interests
When not working, I enjoy traveling, taking photos of random things, exploring the city, trying new food places or riding my motorbike. I try to visit at least 5 countries each year.
My technical interests outside of work are space exploration, airplanes, cars and motorbikes. Recently I also started to set my foot into home automation so now I have RFID readers dangling from my walls and most of the fruits around the apartment are Raspberry Pis.
