Jiri 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 Prague
Ing., Ing. at Czech Technical University in Prague Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Transfer data from Apify Actors to vector databases (Chroma, Milvus, Pinecone, PostgreSQL (PG-Vector), Qdrant, and Weaviate)
Contributions:7 reviews, 84 PRs, 121 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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