Tomas Jenicek

Email
tojenicek@gmail.com
Linkedin
linkedin.com/in/tomasjenicek
Github
github.com/jenicek

After six years in AI/ML research (PhD, ICCV, NeurIPS, 300 citations), I shifted into startup product roles to work on problems with real-world impact.

I take a product from zero to one – data pipelines, ML models, backend/frontend, user research interviews, whathever is needed for production-ready.

Experience

2025
Founder in the Pioneers program validating three products as an early-stage CTO.
2025
Startup generalist at Aisle working with Ondrej Vlcek (Avast), Stanislav Fort (DeepMind), and Jaya Baloo (Rapid7) across Eng, PM, CD
2024
Co-founder at Evangelist with Dušan Kovačič (Rockaway) and Martin Doušek (Filuta)
  • Zero-to-one product development – 2500 weekly active users in 90 days
  • Owned data pipelines for content-based Tweet rewarding.
  • Led the development of Product V2 in a team of five.
2024
Freelancing ML Engineer for Cabinet of Wonders
  • End-to-end delivery of state-of-the-art ML model for artwork recognition.
2017 - 2024
Researcher of computer vision at CTU in Prague
  • PhD in image retrieval under Ondrej Chum.
  • Authored and presented 5 papers at top conferences (ICCV, Neurips, ECCV – core A/A*).
  • Supervised students across BSc/MSc theses and research roles, managed lab teachers, and directed a 5-person research project.
2022
Research Internship at Naver Labs Europe, Grenoble

Competence

Programming
Python, PyTorch, Pandas, FastAPI
ML/AI
Computer Vision, LLMs in traditional NLP tasks, Agentic systems
DevOps
Docker, Terraform, Ansible, PostgreSQL, AWS, Azure
Soft Skills
Public speaking, team leading, English C2
Hobbies
Licensed sailing skipper RYA CS, climbing, freediving