Jan Vitek
Director Of Language Theory at Epic Games
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Vitek is a director-level researcher and engineering leader specializing in programming languages, compilers, program analysis, and systems for security, real-time, and embedded environments. With over a decade of experience spanning academia and industry, he balances roles as Director of Language Theory at Epic Games and Professor at Northeastern University, bringing rigorous research to practical VM and compiler problems. His career includes leadership of ACM SIGPLAN, visiting positions at top labs (Oracle, IBM, Stanford, EPFL), and hands-on engineering at startups like Lacework and 0xdata, reflecting fluency across theory and production. He is known for work on ownership types and virtual machines, applying formal ideas to improve safety and performance in real-world systems. Based in Brookline, MA, Jan combines deep academic credentials (PhD in Informatique) with a track record of translating language theory into shipping technology. A witty self-description—Invent, Teach, Obfuscate—hints at a playful but rigorous approach to solving complex software problems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of VictoriaPhD, Informatique, PhD, Informatique at University of Geneva
English, French, German, Czech
Github Skills (13)
measurement10
mixed-models10
h2oai10
statistical-learning10
numerical-integration9
h2o8
java8
curry6
jekyll4
hugo3
eval3
blockchain2
ethereum2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
janvitek/janvitek.github.io
Aug 2014 - Nov 2022
Jan Vitek's home page
Contributions:354 commits, 4 PRs, 338 pushes in 8 years 4 months
janhome-page
janvitek/JuliaGenerable
Nov 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 112 pushes in 8 months
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