Rene Schallner
Founder at AI Research & Technology Lab GmbH
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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RockstarRene Schallner is a founder and seasoned software engineer with eight years of experience bridging applied AI research and hands-on engineering from Vienna. He has led technology labs and early-stage engineering at research-driven organizations, most recently founding an AI Research & Technology Lab after serving as Chief Founding Engineer at ZML. Rene combines deep developer craftsmanship—evident in long-standing open-source work like building core features for the popular Neovim telekasten plugin—with a researcher’s mindset for building knowledge-first tooling and AI systems. Comfortable across full-stack development and research engineering, he has a track record of turning investigational ideas into production-ready tools and workflows. Colleagues know him for tackling niche developer experiences (e.g., zettelkasten workflows inside Neovim) while scaling broader AI capabilities for organizations.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (15)
plugin-development10
neovim10
markdown10
lua10
telescope10
markdown-it10
scripting9
shell9
script9
sh9
git7
tensorboard6
multibox6
android6
tensorflow6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nvim-telekasten/telekasten.nvim
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
A Neovim (lua) plugin for working with a markdown zettelkasten / wiki and mixing it with a journal, based on telescope.nvim
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 279 commits, 23 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Rene primarily worked on implementing and enhancing features for a Neovim plugin related to Zettelkasten and wiki functionality. Their contributions began with the initial implementation of the plugin and progressed through several iterations. They introduced functionalities such as daily and weekly note finders, link insertion, tag support, and image handling, ultimately building out core features for a markdown-based knowledge management system within Neovim.
mixingluatelescopeneovim-luavim
renerocksai/dotfiles
Nov 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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