Jiří Klein
Forward Deployed Applications
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJiří Klein is a Forward Deployed Applications engineer with seven years of experience building production-ready data and ML infrastructure across consultancy and carbon-tech startups. He progressed from forensic data analyst to senior roles at QuantumBlack and BeZero Carbon, combining hands-on engineering leadership with practical deployment of data pipelines. An active contributor to the popular Kedro project, Jiří has deep MLOps and back-end expertise—refactoring core dataset components and improving async pipeline reliability for real-world Spark/Databricks environments. Trained in engineering mathematics from the University of Bristol and Czech Technical University, he blends rigorous quantitative thinking with product-focused execution. Based in England, he brings a pragmatic mix of research-grade technical skill and delivery experience in high-stakes, data-driven organisations.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Bilingual and Multilingual Education, High School Bilingual and Multilingual Education at Gymnázium Olomouc - HejčínMathematical Engineering, Mathematical Engineering at Czech Technical University in PragueMaster’s Degree Engineering Mathematics, Master’s Degree Engineering Mathematics at University of Bristol
Czech, English, Spanish, Russian
Stackoverflow
1,932reputation
192kreached
78answers
3questions
pyspark
top-5%
apache-spark
top-5%
Github Skills (19)
spark10
data-pipelines10
pytest10
python10
data-pipeline10
data-engineering9
apache-spark9
pyspark9
configuration-management9
mlops9
pipeline8
git7
yaml7
machine-learning6
append6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kedro-org/kedro
Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
Kedro is a toolbox for production-ready data science. It uses software engineering best practices to help you create data engineering and data science pipelines that are reproducible, maintainable, and modular.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & MLOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & MLOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 19 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jiří primarily focused on improving the `kedro` library's functionality related to data pipelines, specifically addressing hook synchronization within asynchronous node execution and refactoring core components like `SparkHiveDataSet`. The user also addressed bug fixes, including pandas.DataFrame support in `YAMLDataSet` and implementing a fix for `VersionedDataset` within the Databricks environment. The contributions also included refactoring and improvements to configuration loading and pipeline packaging processes within the `kedro` framework, alongside documentation updates.
experiment-trackingpythonsciencepipelinedata-science
jiriklein/spaceflights
Nov 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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