Jakub Powierza is a senior machine learning engineer with 11 years' experience building and productionising computer vision and ML infrastructure for companies from Intel to Niantic and Wayve. He specialises in optimizing end-to-end models for low-latency, on-device and hardware-specific inference, having shipped scalable training and continuous delivery pipelines, model converters, and benchmarking infrastructure across cloud and edge. His research contributions include co-authoring a CVPR’25 paper on 3D Gaussian splatting and driving practical improvements in semantic segmentation, depth estimation and AR features used across Niantic’s products. Pragmatic and hands-on, he has also contributed mobile client fixes in prominent open-source projects (e.g., Rocket.Chat iOS) and built cost-efficient multi-GPU training platforms and real-time inference pipelines for high-profile deployments. Based in London and a film photographer outside work, he blends rigorous engineering with a creative eye for detail.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Gdańsk University of Technology
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily contributed to the iOS Rocket.Chat client, focusing on enhancing its compatibility with Rocket.Chat servers hosted on subdirectories. They modified core components like API requests, URL handling, and authentication flows to accommodate these configurations. Furthermore, the user introduced tests to validate the updated functionality, and made minor adjustments to custom emoji handling and whitespace. These changes show an emphasis on ensuring the application functions correctly with diverse server setups.
Contributions:36 commits, 17 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
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Jakub Powierza - (Senior) Machine Learning Engineer at Wayve