Vít Baisa

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senior software engineer

Qualifications, accomplishments

• 12+ years of experience as a developer, research scientist and lecturer
• Ph.D. in Informatics
• strong communication skills (native Czech, advanced English)
• Jan Hus Educational Foundation Award
• Toptal member since 2019

Skills

• Python, JavaScript, web stack
• natural language processing, Linux environment
• big data, data visualization, data mining, web scraping
• frontend, APIs, backend

Experience

Freelance software engineer, 2021–, part-time remote

• Working on various small projects
• CorpusMate a web tool for English language learning,
• CONYE a project for British Council in Beijing.

Merlon, DataOps engineer, 2020–2021, full-time remote

• Annotation tooling,
• data analysis,
• NLP pipeline,
• web scraping,
• knowledge graph (neo4j).

Lexical Computing, medior developer, 2012–2020, full-time

• language analysis tools
• terminology extraction
• dictionary writing
• language learning apps
• data mining

Masaryk University, NLP Centre, researcher, 2009–2020, part-time

language data processing, language technology, visualization language games, data science

Masaryk University, lecturer, 2010–2020, part-time

• programming and algorithms
• natural language processing, machine translation, typesetting
• workshops, labs, courses, tutorials for linguists, journalists, lexicographers
• supervising grad students

Other projects and activities

• bankruptcy map for The Institute for Overindebtedness
• Hackathon Code for Czechia (2nd place)
• VersaText (a language analyzer)
• Dashboard monitoring and control of our passive house
• Presence sport event management for my badminton club