Summary
Michal Certicky is a CTO and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building AI-driven products, from hands-on platform engineering to leading academic research groups. He founded Urban Algorithmics and Dayswaps, where he architected a full-stack workforce management platform combining optimization, ML, and real-time communication (Node.js, GraphQL, React Native, OR-Tools). As a senior researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Center (CTU Prague) he led games & simulations research and worked on agent-based modeling, computational logic and optimization—bridging rigorous research with production systems. He also steered R&D at cybersecurity startup Datactive, showing a pattern of shipping experimental tools into practice. Based in Prague, he pairs a PhD-level background in informatics and cognitive science with a rare blend of algorithmic depth and end-to-end product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Informatics at Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
Master's degree, Cognitive Science, Master's degree, Cognitive Science at Eötvös Loránd University
Gymnázium Alejová 1, Košice
English, Slovak, Czech