Jan Schulte
Founder at Betalyra Sociedade Unipessoal Lda.
Lisbon Metropolitan Area Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Schulte is a founder and AI engineer based in Lisbon who helps companies adopt generative AI with a focus on privacy-friendly, cost-effective models that can run directly in the browser. With ~5 years of concentrated AI and product work and a longer history in functional programming and scalable back-end systems, he bridges research-grade deep learning with pragmatic web deployments. He founded Betalyra and built web-first tools like SearchAttention, and previously led technical teams and startups building real-time APIs and Scala-based backends. An active open-source contributor, Jan has improved PureScript tooling and Spago’s build/run flow to support ES modules and esbuild, reflecting his interest in lightweight, composable developer tooling. Beyond code, he authors the AI & the Web newsletter and combines engineering rigor with an eye for user-facing, privacy-preserving AI experiences.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at RPTU Kaiserslautern-LandauEuropean Master in Software Engineering Software Engineering, European Master in Software Engineering Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of TechnologyEuropean Master in Software Engineering Software Engineering, European Master in Software Engineering Software Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
German, English, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese
Github Skills (13)
purescript10
dependency-management10
build-tools10
package-manager10
spago10
esmodules10
package-management10
esbuild10
nodejs9
functional-programming9
javascript8
build-automation7
testing7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
purescript/package-sets
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
PureScript packages for Spago and Psc-Package
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 32 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the `purescript/package-sets` repository by updating and adding PureScript packages. Their commits focused on incorporating new packages, updating existing package versions, and adding dependencies within the package set definitions. The user's work streamlined the process for managing and integrating PureScript libraries for Spago and Psc-Package. Their contributions show a focus on maintaining the package set's consistency.
package-setpsc-packagepscpackage-managerspago
purescript/spago
Jan 2022 - May 2022
🍝 PureScript package manager and build tool
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jan contributed to the PureScript package manager and build tool, `spago`. Their work primarily focused on enhancing the `spago run` command, adding support for ES modules and integrating esbuild for bundling. They also refactored the build process to avoid creating unnecessary JavaScript files. Furthermore, the user updated the test suite to account for these changes and added relevant test cases.
package-setspackage-managerdhalltypescriptpnpm
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