Rafal Jozefowicz
Senior Vice President at The D. E. Shaw Group
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafal Jozefowicz is a seasoned senior technology leader with a decade of experience spanning research and production engineering across top-tier firms. He helped pioneer deep reinforcement learning and robotics work at OpenAI—most notably on the high-profile OpenAI Five Dota 2 project—and transitioned to strategic technical leadership as Senior Vice President at D. E. Shaw. Earlier roles at Google Brain, Two Sigma, and Microsoft reflect a rare blend of cutting-edge ML research and quantitative, production-grade software engineering. Based in New York, he combines rigorous academic foundations in computer science with hands-on expertise shipping complex systems at scale, and is known for translating experimental AI breakthroughs into robust, real-world applications.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Jagiellonian University
Github Skills (17)
python10
solve10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
reinforcement-learning9
universe9
algorithms9
mixture8
paper7
agent7
variational-inference3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openai/universe-starter-agent
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
A starter agent that can solve a number of universe environments.
Contributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 month
solveuniverseagentenvironments
rafaljozefowicz/lm
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 commit, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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