Frantisek Simancik
Senior R&D Engineer at Brightpick
Bratislava, Region of Bratislava, Slovakia
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Top SchoolFrantisek Simancik is a Senior R&D Engineer with 15 years of experience building knowledge representation, automated reasoning and ML-driven systems, currently based in Bratislava. Trained at Oxford (DPhil in Computer Science), he led semantic engineering efforts at Google where he rebuilt a Knowledge Graph schema validator for a 100x performance gain and developed an online rule-based reasoner for a personal KG. He has bridged research and product work across roles—from NLP and commonsense knowledge mining to AI models for EKG analysis in cardiology—demonstrating a track record of turning formal reasoning into practical, high-performance systems. Now at Brightpick, he continues to apply deep academic foundations to industry R&D, with a knack for squeezing large algorithmic improvements out of real-world data pipelines.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Gymnázium Grössligová 18DPhil Computer Science, DPhil Computer Science at University of Oxford
English, Slovak
Github Skills (8)
owl10
reasoner10
java9
calculator5
satisfactory4
mindmap2
javascript2
interactive1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
ykazakov/condor-reasoner
Dec 2010 - Dec 2011
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year
liveontologies/elk-reasoner
Apr 2011 - Feb 2013
A Java-based OWL 2 EL reasoner
Contributions:168 commits in 1 year 10 months
javareasonerowl
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