Summary
Jakub Hampl is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience building pragmatic, user-focused software from data visualisation dashboards to secure anonymization tooling. Based in Edinburgh, he blends deep conceptual thinking—grounded in an MSc in Cognitive Science and a BSc in AI & Psychology—with hands-on delivery across front-end, back-end and hybrid cloud migrations. He has led multidisciplinary teams to accelerate complex engineering design for electric vehicles, created internal UI systems to 10x developer productivity, and designed rigorous property-based test suites for physics-based models. Jakub pays particular attention to security and data privacy, having worked on SQL-to-anonymization compilers, and brings a knack for turning tedious workflows into elegant, automatable solutions.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Cognitive Science, Master of Science (MSc) Cognitive Science at The University of Edinburgh
English, Czech, French, Japanese, Greek