Jan Motl
Systémový Inženýr at Panasonic Automotive Systems Czech
Slatiňany, Pardubice, Czechia
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Top SchoolJan Motl is a systems engineer with 13 years of experience delivering reliable information systems and leading engineering teams in the Czech Republic, currently shaping automotive systems at Panasonic Automotive Systems Czech. He progressed from application consultancy and IT team leadership at MAKRO to project and engineering leadership roles, blending hands-on technical work with people and project management. His open-source contributions to scikit-learn-contrib’s category_encoders show a practical focus on maintainability, backwards compatibility, and benchmarking for performance and memory consumption. Based in Slatiňany, he combines a pragmatic engineering mindset—reflected in his philosophy of learning from mistakes—with a track record of optimizing real-world systems under tight operational constraints.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
not finished, Environmental Engineering Technology/Environmental Technology, not finished, Environmental Engineering Technology/Environmental Technology at Czech Technical University in Prague
Github Skills (11)
scikit-learn10
data-analysis10
pandas10
machine-learning10
benchmarking10
benchmark10
categorical10
python10
encoding10
scikit10
code-optimization9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
scikit-learn-contrib/category_encoders
Jul 2018 - Jul 2020
A library of sklearn compatible categorical variable encoders
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Back-end Developer & Data ScientistContributions:1 release, 201 commits, 42 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jan contributed to the compatibility of the binary encoder with older versions of pandas, indicating a focus on library maintenance and bug fixes. The initial commit introduced benchmarking examples, suggesting data analysis and model evaluation tasks. The user also cleaned up the benchmarking code and added memory consumption metrics to the evaluation process, showing skills in data analysis, and code optimization.
sklearn
janmotl/linkifier
Apr 2017 - Feb 2022
Database reverse engineering
Contributions:17 releases, 66 commits, 56 pushes in 4 years 11 months
databasereverse-engineeringforeign-keyser-diagrammysql
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