Tomas 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