Karol Lasocki is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 8 years of experience building production ML systems across NLP, TTS and LLM training pipelines. He has driven measurable product impact at JetBrains—tripling autocompletion acceptance with a low-latency filter—and contributed to open-source NLP tooling like Flair, improving sequence tagging, metrics and model interpretability. His work spans research and engineering: from state-of-the-art melody-conditioned generation in academia to scalable multilingual TTS at Amazon and efficiency-focused LLM training at BottleCap AI. Comfortable across backend, model, and metric design, he combines hands-on implementation with UX-informed evaluation and team mentorship. Based in Czechia, he brings a multidisciplinary curiosity—cognitive science, VR and language learning—that often influences creative ML solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
AGH University
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at SECCLO Master's Programme in Security and Cloud Computing (Erasmus Mundus)
SECCLO Master's Programme in Security and Cloud Computing, Computer Science, SECCLO Master's Programme in Security and Cloud Computing, Computer Science at Aalto University
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Eastern Finland
A very simple framework for state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Karol significantly contributed to the FlairNLP project by adding and refining features related to sequence tagging and text classification models. They implemented F-beta score calculations and integrated them as a key evaluation metric. Further contributions include adding class weights to loss functions and enhancing the model's logging for new parameters, ultimately improving the functionality and interpretability of the models. Minor refactoring was also carried out.
Contributions:33 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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Karol Lasocki - Senior Machine Learning Engineer at BottleCap AI