Jan Macháček Email & Phone Number

Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Co-founder of a PC and Xbox game development studio, focusing on gaming accessibility, bringing exciting games to as wide audience of players as possible.

I co-host The University of Manchester Open Source Software Club: in partnership with Imago Software, we are piloting a new initiative that will bring together talented student coders from across the University with academics who are looking to build a community and user base for their open source research software.I also help with the current Imago projects, sharing guidance on best practices in software development and delivery.

Building Innovation Accelerator and boosting Imago Software—the student software company.

Manchester

Muvr is an fitness tracking, motivation and personal training application, which works standalone on the mobile, and can use Apple Watch, Pebble and other wearable devices, to help the users improve their fitness.Technically, the mobile application builds a statistical model of user's exercise sessions and classifies the "nature" of the exercise being performed using ANN. The users can use the app's AR, which overlays an illustration of the exercise to be performed on the equipment the… Show more Muvr is an fitness tracking, motivation and personal training application, which works standalone on the mobile, and can use Apple Watch, Pebble and other wearable devices, to help the users improve their fitness.Technically, the mobile application builds a statistical model of user's exercise sessions and classifies the "nature" of the exercise being performed using ANN. The users can use the app's AR, which overlays an illustration of the exercise to be performed on the equipment the users see, and they can take advantage of automated personal training advice. The content for the video and training advice is generated on the server, alongside improved models for the classification ANN and improved statistical models to help the users achieve their fitness goals. Show less

Manchester, United Kingdom

I research and implement new patterns in distributed systems engineering, practical applications of principled functional programming, and applied data science and machine learning. I share my experience and results with the engineering teams, helping to drive enthusiasm and excitement, aiming to improve all aspects of the code we write. I also regularly speak at engineering conferences.

Manchester, United Kingdom

As the CTO, I set Cake Solutions' technical strategy. I drive the teams to explore the most challenging aspects of big data processing and machine learning. I oversee all R&D effort at Cake Solutions and present the results at technical conferences. I continuously encourage my teams to expand their expertise and skills, particularly when it comes to delivering all aspects of distributed big data systems. I share my expertise and insights with our customers, helping them achieve complex… Show more As the CTO, I set Cake Solutions' technical strategy. I drive the teams to explore the most challenging aspects of big data processing and machine learning. I oversee all R&D effort at Cake Solutions and present the results at technical conferences. I continuously encourage my teams to expand their expertise and skills, particularly when it comes to delivering all aspects of distributed big data systems. I share my expertise and insights with our customers, helping them achieve complex technology transformation by successfully delivering their software, and instilling the culture of excellent engineering and rigorous project management. Show less

Manchester, Oxford

I align Paycasso's business needs with the direction of the identity verification and biometric computer vision industry. I lead Paycasso's engineering and research efforts to deliver reliable, responsive, resilient, and elastic system. I make the most of my open-source experience, and my knowledge of reactive application architecture & implementation, computer vision & biometric processing.

Oxford, United Kingdom

I am the chief technical editor of all articles for the Open Source Journal. (I would be delighted to have your contributions, get in touch with a good article and I shall publish it.)

I deliver programming training courses to small groups of engineers; I enthuse the attendees to truly stretch their skills in order to fully understand the course material.In the "previous life", I delivered Spring Framework courses; I now handle the Scala / Akka courseware.

Oxford, United Kingdom

I oversee the technical & management aspects of all our projects, ensuring that they are done to the best of our knowledge & abilities.

I designed and implemented Win32 controls to allow Microfocus COBOL-based system to make the most of the Windows GUI. I also completely re-implemented the system's Windows and Linux installer, including features for automatic internet updates (locally on Win32 and remotely on Linux systems).