Technology leader with 13+ years of experience in product and people management, engineering, research.
I have built up a wide experience at early-stage startup, mid-size companies, goverment, multinational corporations. I strive in cross-funtional, high impact and high velocity environments. I have experience in growing teams and scaling products as an engineer, a people manager and a product manager as well as experience in driving change at large established corporations.
I am strongly user and product minded. I love clean code, beautifully organized software and engineering teams, and comprehensive documentation. I don't mind fighting fires (qiute the opposite) and have experience in making difficult decisions. As a bit of a joker, I always try to bring cheer and fun to my teams.
My personal interests outside of work: motorcycles, beer brewing, home automation, photography.
For job opportunities, consultancy work, etc. you can find my contact information on this page.
I am working on Woven's Arene, Toyota's next-gen software platform and development tooling. My responsibilities include interfacing with the customers and adjacent teams, roadmap planning, requirements management, risk management, feasibility studies, product presentations and supporting our scrum process. I am currently owning a product portfolio that has over 2 thousand B2B users and used not only by Toyota but at 3rd party supply chain as well. The main areas I focused so far at Woven:
- 3D Simulation for ADAS testing and validation- Developer tools and software automation for building, testing, analyzing and deploying both in-vehicle and out-of-vehicle code
- Big data collection and visualization
I was leading 3 client-facing projects on the order of few hundred thousand to 1.5 million dollars. I'm was charge of planning, project management, hiring and also contribute to development and serve as a scrum master for my team. My area of focus was automation in construction and warehouses (automated forklifts). My team was involved with multiple sub-projects ranging from perception/ML to customizing our SaaS/PaaS cloud backend to our customers' needs. I was also responsible for some of our product management work and hiring.
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 of our 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 CEO.
I was leading the growing automotive (self-driving) teams of Ascent Robotics while the organization was expanding after our Series A investment. I was managing the vehicle robotics team, infrastructure team and software tools team. I was leading 30+ people in a constantly evolving environment and served as an interim CTO for a while while also still actively participating in development and code reviews.
I was leading a team of 5-7 engineers, developing the core framework of our deep learning and robotics platform and designed our self-driving R&D car platform (Lexus RX450h). I led HW and SW architecture design, software engineering, technical hiring and project management. Additional to this, I was also working on financial intelligence projects as a software engineer.
I joined Ascent Robotics as the company's 2nd engineer. I was actively participating in shaping the company from the beginning, 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.
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. Briefly I also worked on the company's delivery robot platform.
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.
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.
Remote studies. I dropped out because of my demanding startup work.
I took a vide array of classes including Electrical and Mechanical Engineering classes to explore my interests. I also won two scholarships (see below).
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.
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
When not working, I enjoy traveling, taking photos of random things, exploring the city, trying new food places or riding my motorbike.
My technical interests outside of work are home automation, space exploration, airplanes, cars and motorbikes.