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        <h1>Jan <em>Matas</em></h1>
        <p>Software Engineer | Engineering Manager</p>
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        <h1>Education</h1>
        <p>2014 - 2018 <em>Imperial College London | MEng Computing (AI)</em></p>
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          <li>Graduated as <b>top of the 2018 class student</b> (Grade: 87.5%).</li>
          <li>Member of departmental student society comitee and tutor in mathematics.</li>
          <li>Received multiple prizes for academic performance and projects.</li>
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        <h1>Work Experience</h1>
        <p>2019 - Present <em>Deepnote | CTO, co-founder</em></p>
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          <li><b>Co-founded Deepnote</b> with a mission to build a radically better data science tooling.</li>
          <li>As an IC: <b>developed the original software architecture</b> and selected the tech stack (largely still unchanged).</li>
          <li>As a manager: <b>hired a team of 20 engineers</b> and implemented the necessary processes as the company scaled.</li>
          <li>Eventually migrated back to an IC role, where I worked on mulitple high value projects <b>(SOC2, HIPAA, deployment models)</b>.</li>

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        <p>2018 - 2019 | <em>Two Sigma | Software engineer</em></p>
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          <li>Implemented new <b>execution scheduler</b> significantly increasing model prediction speed (Java).</li>
          <li>Adapted internal build mechanisms to work with new Python APIs.</li>
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        <p>2017 | <em> Palantir | Software engineer (intern)</em></p>
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          <li>Full stack development of data analytics tool for a customer (Java, Typescript, ElasticSearch)</li>
          <li>Implemented <b>recommendation system</b> based on the content similarity of analyzed documents</li>
          <li>Significantly <b>improved search relevance and performance</b>, improved data pipeline reliability</li>
          <li>Iterated with users on functionality and UX of multiple features during onsite visits</li>
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        <p>2016 | <em>Google | Site reliability engineer (intern)</em></p>
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          <li>Created a system for analyzing per video resource usage in YouTube ContentID system</li>
          <li>Built an <b>AB load-testing infrastructure using traffic replays </b>for a new ContentID index</li>
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        <h1>Publications</h1>

        <p>Matas, J., James, S., Davison, A.J. (2018). <b>Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Deformable Object
          Manipulation</b>. in Conference on Robot Learning (CORL) 2018 - <b>300+ citations</b></p>
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        <h1>Noteable projects</h1>
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          <li>Learning end-to-end robotic manipulation of deformable objects (Python, Tensorflow, Physics simulators)
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                <b>People’s choice award for best final year project </b> - <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/
1806.07851">https://arxiv.org/abs/
1806.07851</a>
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          <li>Global Air Traffic Management For UAVs - in association Microsoft (C#, Python)
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                <b>Palantir Forward Group Project Prize</b> for outstanding third year group project - <a href="https://bit.ly/2uXJSCs">https://bit.ly/2uXJSCs</a>
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          <li>Neural networks - character recognition and traveling salesman problem using recurrent neural network (Java)
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                <b>CPP prize for best project in category</b>, team leader (5 imperial students)
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          <li>Improving Code Completion with Machine Learning (GPT2, LSTM)
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                Proposed and led final year project for an Imperial student  <a href="https://bit.ly/2uXJSCs">https://bit.ly/code-completion</a>
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          <li>AREROS - autonomous rescue robotic system able to navigate in dangerous environments
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              <b>Intel ISEF 2012 </b> – Finalist, <b>World championship in robotics RoboCup jr. 2011 </b>- 1st place
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        <h1>Skills</h1>
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          <li>ML</li>
          <li>RL</li>
          <li>K8s</li>
          <li>Python</li>
          <li>Compliance</li>
          <li>TypeScript</li>
          <li>Terraform</li>
          <li>AWS</li>
          <li>GCP</li>
          <li>Hiring</li>
          <li>Eng Management</li>
          <li>Comp Vision</li>
          <li>Robotics</li>
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