Petr Baudis
Founder, CTO, Chief AI Architect at Rossum Ltd.
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolPetr Baudis is a veteran founder and CTO with 26 years of experience building AI-driven products and high-performance software, currently shaping Rossum’s R&D, product and AI strategy to automate document-centric business processes. He co-authored Rossum’s core neural pipeline and blends hands-on research with leadership across engineering, product, customer success and operations. Earlier work spans founding Ailao (commercializing deep learning research into SaaS like vize.ai), pioneering computer Go research (creator of the influential open-source engine Pachi) and early Git/core contributions at Novell. His background mixes theoretical computer science and practical systems engineering—from embedded IoT libraries for PubNub to Monte Carlo Tree Search for Go—revealing a rare ability to move ideas from research to robust production software. Based in Prague, he combines academic rigor with startup grit and a talent for turning complex ML research into commercially viable platforms.
26 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (dropped out), Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (dropped out), Artificial Intelligence at Czech Technical University in PragueGrammar School, Grammar School at Ad FontesMaster's degree, Theoretical Computer Science, Master's degree, Theoretical Computer Science at Univerzita Karlova v Praze
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Github Skills (24)
algorithms10
c-language10
game-ai10
ethernet10
go10
cprogramming-language10
arduino10
realtime9
apim9
c119
communications9
api9
c179
iot9
real-time-data9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
pasky/pachi
Nov 2007 - Apr 2019
A fairly strong Go/Baduk/Weiqi playing program
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2832 commits, 34 PRs, 37 pushes in 11 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Petr contributed to the core gameplay logic of the Go/Baduk/Weiqi program "pachi". Their work involved implementing and modifying core components like move generation, board evaluation, and time management within the UCT search algorithm. The contributions included fixing bugs, making performance improvements, and extending the feature set of the engine. The user also improved the code by introducing various features such as including the option to set time settings at the command line.
golangweiqibadukplaying
pubnub/pubnub-api
Oct 2012 - Mar 2013
APIs for developers building secure realtime mobile, web, and IoT apps.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:56 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Petr primarily focused on developing an Arduino library for the PubNub API, enabling real-time communication capabilities for Arduino-based projects. This involved implementing methods for publishing, subscribing, and retrieving message history within the Arduino environment, using the Ethernet library. The user also addressed issues related to chunked transfer encoding and time token handling, refining the library for optimal performance. The user also added multiple examples using the library.
securerealtimefor-developersmobile-webiot
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