Guntis Strazds
Doctoral Researcher at EDI - Institute of Electronics and Computer Science
Latvia
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Top SchoolGuntis Strazds is a pragmatic perfectionist and doctoral researcher with four decades of industry experience and a focused 11-year recent track record in research and engineering roles across Latvia. He combines hands‑on software craft—ranging from embedded firmware and C++ protocol proxies to rich multimedia authoring systems and Flex-based GUIs—with proven leadership as a founder/CTO and early startup VP who scaled engineering teams from single digits to 30+. His career emphasis on authoring and delivery of interactive multimedia is now complemented by active work in machine translation, emotion classification for dialog systems, and emerging expertise in NLP and sequential decision making. Comfortable leading architecture discussions and shipping core code, he prioritizes developer productivity, maintainable design, and high-performance teams that produce real-world results. Known for staying current, he pairs academic rigor (PhD work and MIT double majors in CS and Cognitive Science) with a long history of translating research ideas into production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, double major combined GPA 4.9 (5.0 scale), Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, double major combined GPA 4.9 (5.0 scale) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Latvijas Universitate
English, Latvian
Github Skills (2)
python2
replay1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gstrazds/twagents
Jan 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:173 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 9 months
gstrazds/TextWorld
Sep 2022 - Sep 2024
TextWorld is a sandbox learning environment for the training and evaluation of reinforcement learning (RL) agents on text-based games.
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
gamesrl-agentsreinforcement-learningevaluationagents
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