Jiří Semecký
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolJiří Semecký is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Zurich with over a decade of experience blending systems engineering, web development, and natural language research. He has deep Java expertise and a broad polyglot background (C/C++, Python, Perl, PHP, JavaScript) applied across Google-scale back-end projects and earlier research roles in NLP, voice technologies, and medical informatics. At Google he contributed foundational Java implementations to notable open-source projects such as the Open Location Code library (plus codes), demonstrating an ability to translate algorithms into production-grade libraries. He pairs academic rigor—a PhD focus in natural language processing—with entrepreneurial experience founding an e-commerce comparison service, so he comfortably moves between research, product, and shipping reliable software. Colleagues know him for pragmatic design, Eclipse platform fluency, and an interest in machine learning that surfaces in both applied and tooling work.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Medical informatics, Medical informatics at Trinity College DublinNatural language processing, Natural language processing at Universität des SaarlandesPhd., Natural language processing, Phd., Natural language processing at Charles University
Github Skills (7)
javas10
java10
geolocation10
c-language3
c173
c113
cprogramming-language3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/open-location-code
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
Open Location Code is a library to generate short codes, called "plus codes", that can be used as digital addresses where street addresses don't exist.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jiří primarily worked on the initial Java implementation of the open-location-code library. They introduced the `OpenLocationCode` class, including methods for encoding and decoding location codes. Their contributions involved defining the data structures for representing the code area, and modifying and fixing code to be static. They also updated the code to allow shortening of codes.
pluscodepythongeolatitudejavascript
jirisemecky/simple-milight
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 6 months
milightapilimitlessledlightjava-api
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