Jan Rus
Head Of Research at Productboard
Plzeň - město, Plzeň, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Rus is Head of Research with 12+ years focused on applied AI, leading teams that turn ML research into production-grade features at Emplifi while consulting for Productboard. He combines a PhD-backed foundation in computer graphics and data compression—recognized with a commercial application award—with hands-on engineering, architecture, and people leadership. Jan excels at accelerating delivery on large-scale data systems, bridging prototype research and robust, scalable implementations. Though primarily strategic, he stays technically involved and maintains long-term consulting ties that keep him grounded in practical ML productization. An implicit strength is his ability to translate academic rigor into commercial impact, having moved from five years as a university researcher to founding a research function in industry.
12 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Graphics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Graphics at University of West Bohemia, Pilsen
Github Skills (13)
deferred8
nodejs5
expressjs4
nodejs-server3
postgresql3
realtime2
websocket2
micro-framework2
data-structure1
python1
kd-tree1
searching1
nearest-neighbors1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jan-rus/country-in-text-detector
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
falsecz/easy-pg
Jun 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:1 release, 91 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 7 months
deferrednode-jsnodejspostgrespostgresql
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