Tomaž Kompara
Technical Team Lead at Elaphe Propulsion Technologies Ltd.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Top SchoolTomaž Kompara is a Technical Team Lead with 11 years of experience bridging research and product delivery in embedded systems, smart-home devices, and machine learning. He progressed from hands-on research at the Jožef Stefan Institute to leading a 35-person R&D department at Elgoline and now drives vehicle control and embedded software teams at Elaphe. His background spans PCB and firmware design through advanced ML-driven person-identification and smart-home projects, giving him rare end-to-end expertise from hardware to production software. Known for translating academic research into commercial products, he frequently balances part-time research roles with industry engineering to keep innovation practical and current. Based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, he holds a PhD-level ICT background and a BSc in NLP, which informs his systems thinking and data-driven approach to embedded control problems. An uncommon strength is his ability to lead multidisciplinary teams while still contributing deep technical work across firmware, control units, and ML integration.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Natural language processing, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Natural language processing at Faculty of electrical engineering, LjubljanaPh.D., ICT, Ph.D., ICT at Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School
English
Github Skills (60)
linguistics10
python10
corpus10
parliamentary-data10
dto10
thesaurus10
service-provider10
comparable10
corpus-linguistics10
user-interface9
pid9
encoding9
text-encoding9
extensible9
xml9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
clarinsi/mte-msd
Nov 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:126 commits, 73 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
clarin-eric/parla-clarin
May 2019 - May 2022
Schema for modelling parliamentary debates
Contributions:105 commits, 1 PR, 86 pushes in 3 years
debatestlaplusmodellingparliamentary
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