Jiri Spilka
Software Engineer at Apify
Prague, Prague, United States
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Top SchoolJiri Spilka is a software engineer with a decade of experience turning data into practical AI-driven solutions, currently building data and context infrastructure at Apify. His background spans academic research and industry R&D—culminating in a PhD from Czech Technical University—and includes roles in signal processing, medical tech, and applied machine learning. He designs ML models, signal-processing pipelines, and APIs that make complex data accessible to products and developers. Comfortable moving work from research to production, he spent seven years bridging academia and commercial R&D at Concerto.ai and earlier research appointments in Europe. Pragmatic and curious, he describes himself as an “AI plumber,” solving practical problems where data, engineering, and applied ML meet.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Czech Technical University in PragueIng., Ing. at Czech Technical University in Prague Faculty of Electrical EngineeringLinköping University
English
Github Skills (60)
puppeteer10
web-crawler10
python10
scrape10
scraper10
machine-learning10
vector-database10
statistics10
apify10
llm10
fine-tuning10
crawler10
data-structures10
gpt10
application10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apify/apify-haystack
Jul 2024 - Dec 2024
The official integration for Apify and Haystack 2.0
Contributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 39 PRs in 4 months
apifyhaystack-airag
apify/actors-mcp-server
Jan 2025 - Apr 2025
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Apify's Actors
Contributions:2 releases, 14 reviews, 67 PRs in 2 months
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