Oszkar Jozsa
I create the brains of cars and robots.
I am a team and technical lead, program manager and senior engineer with 10 years of experience in technical management, software engineering, computer vision, robotics and AI/ML.
I worked in multiple different environments; early-stage startup, mid-size company, goverment research institute and multinational corporate job. My current interest are self-driving vehicles, smart robots, spacecraft and the software that is on them. I'm also interested in fintech and deep tech startups in general. Recently, I've been mostly gaining experience in program, project and people management. I have experience in growing teams from 1 to 40+ and delivering products from scratch to $100M+ in sales.
I love clean code, solid architecture, comprehensive documentation (maybe a bit too much). I worked in many different types of roles including project and roadmap planning, writing code, people management, hacking together simple embedded systems, field testing, robotic systems engineering, negotiating with business partners or just managing projects on Jira/Trello/Wrike. I am currently leading a team of 8 engineers and manage multiple client-facing projects. I am always trying to bring cheer and fun to my teams, I am quite a bit of joker and very laid back while also not afraid of hard work. Recently I am very interested in productivity, estimations and shaping engineering organizations.
My strongest suit is possibly the fact that I can get shit done, even in a noisy and constantly changing environment. I am currently not actively looking for new employment but open to collaborate or consult on areas I have expertise in.
Experience
Engineering Lead
I am leading 3 client-facing projects on the order of few hundred thousand to 1.5 million dollars. I'm in charge of planning, project management, hiring and also contribute to development and server as a scrum master for my team. My current area of focus is automation in construction and warehouses (automated forklifts).
Senior Engineering Lead
I was leading the self-driving vehicle department, being involved both in the technical and the operations/management side of the organization. I was acting both as an Engineering Manager for a multidisciplinary team and as a Technical Program Manager leading self-driving vehicle and simulation development. My roles at Ascent also covered a range of software development and software management tasks, including: SW architecture design, budgeting, helping out ML research, robotics software development, systems engineering, self-driving operation management, field testing, code reviewing, roadmap planning and technical hiring. Throughout all my positions at Ascent, I've been directly reporting to the CTO and before that to the CEO.
Technical Lead
I was leading the broader self-driving engineering teams at Ascent Robotics while the organization was growing after our Series A investment. I was invovled with the vehicle robotics and perception team, infrastructure team and software tools team. Before restructuring, I was leading 30+ people in a constantly evolving environment and served as an interim CTO for a while. During this period, I started to learn and be involved with leadership and management while still actively working on engineering tasks.
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 HW and SW architecture design, software engineering, 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 worked on industrial vision software and SDKs (Cognex VisionView, Cognex Designer) the company ships with their camera systems. I mostly worked in C# and TypeScript with some JavaScript and C++. In most of my time at the company I was responsible for HMI framework design and implementation, script parsing, object serialization-deserialization, automatic code generation and software licensing. The products I worked on have a combined sales volume over $100M.
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. I dropped out because of my demanding startup work.
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
- Experience in leadership at a growth stage startup in rapidly changing environment (tech architecture design, business and story planning, bridging the gap betwen R&D and development, investor and partner relations, office expansions, budgeting, extensive experience in interviewing and building teams from scratch)
- Practical knowlege in machine learning (both traditional methods and modern deep learning, reinforcement learning)
- Famility with modern software management tools (GitHub, BitBucket, Confluence, Jira, LiquidPlanner, Trac, MS Exchange) and automation tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, TeamCity)
- Strong sense and preference in well-crafted architecture, beautiful code and comprehensive documentation
- Experience in writing research papers and patents
- 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 single piece.
- C++
- Python
- C#
- TypeScript
- I also dabble some R, JavaScript and trying to pick up some Rust
- 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. Occasionally CLion. In the past, I've also used Netbeans and Eclipse
- I am not afraid of touching the hardware; writing code for embedded systems, taking robots or vehicles apart, etc.
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 5-6 countries each year.
My technical interests outside of work are space exploration, airplanes, cars and motorbikes. I've been experimenting with home automation a bit and planning to learn some mechanical knowledge as soon as I find a place that allows me to tinker on vehicles.
