Summary
Petr Buchal is a researcher and machine learning engineer with 10 years of experience building production computer vision systems, from license-plate OCR to real-time traffic monitoring and intelligent warehouse safety. He combines academic rigor from Brno University of Technology with hands-on engineering—rewriting legacy TensorFlow pipelines into PyTorch Lightning, deploying models with Dockerized tooling, and closing the loop from annotation to automated re-labeling. As a co-founder he designed a neural-embedding recommendation engine and led product, UX and API work, showing he can move ideas into shipped products and pitches that won multiple startup grants. He has deep experience in OCR, document restoration with GANs, hyperspectral analysis, and embedded vision solutions, making him comfortable across research, full-stack tooling, and production deployment. Notably, he built Vision Loop, a practical end-to-end tool that bridges labeling and training to accelerate iterative model improvement.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Graphics and Multimedia, Master's degree, Computer Graphics and Multimedia at Brno University of Technology
English, German, Slovak, Czech