Team

Most people just call him Jaro. Even though he obtained a degree in Information Technology, already in college he discovered that he got the best kick out of creating new businesses. Thus, he decided to start his first company, i.e., Future Processing, which he managed for almost 20 years. Starting with a few engineers, the company has grown to nearly 900 people and is currently developing advanced IT projects for clients from all over the world.

Our founder is a true visionary who does not shy away from difficult challenges, while remaining grounded. The Puls Biznesu magazine included him in its “500 Managers” rank aimed at promoting top Polish entrepreneurs. He has also spoken at numerous conferences and industry events. With a bit of luck, you can meet him putting his blood, sweat, and tears at triathlon races or speeding through a highway in his red Tesla.

Automation/Mechatronics Specialist. A graduate of the Silesian University of Technology. An automotive enthusiast since always, he is ready to play anyone in a game of recognizing car models, down to specific generations. Over time, he had deepened his knowledge from toy cars to detailed vehicle specifications at a General Motors factory, where he worked for 9 years, specializing in component quality and production processes. He was responsible for a pilot team implementing new models and auditing suppliers.

As a member of our team, he is responsible for two vital areas: organizing the autonomous team’s work and implementing a new autonomous vehicle, primarily in the fields of BOM, the purchasing process, and the supply chain. In his private life he is a happy husband and father, a sea helmsman, a windsurfer, and a ski instructor.

An accountant by education, but not practicing :wink:

She has been involved in IT, project management and team leadership for 15 years. After 10 years of work in the e-commerce industry, the thirst for knowledge and new challenges pushed her to change her specialization. The autonomous vehicle project is, on the one hand, nothing new in terms of technology, but also well-known development and team aspects, which combined gives her daily joy of work and new challenges.

In our team, Mirka is responsible for coordinating the work of the development team and ensuring that the team's potential is best used and removing unnecessary obstacles from their way.

In her free time, she relaxes by creating various types of handicrafts - from jewelry, through occasional decorations to macrame. In the interval between creative work and professional work, she spends most of the time playing with her children and her favorite common activity is doing a jigsaw puzzle and playing boards and card games together.

A programmer with 20 years of experience. He wrote his first program in BASIC on an 8-bit Atari computer back in the previous millennium. Since then, he has worked on systems of various sizes in numerous domains. To this day, he finds great joy in making a machine perform a given task, whether it is optimizing a disk, processing financial transactions, reconstructing blood vessels or driving an autonomous vehicle.

As a member of our team, he is responsible for implementing the autonomous driving system in a minibus, which requires him to deal with a wide range of topics, from vehicle mechanics, through integrating various sensors, preparing the software platform and system architecture, all the way to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Apart from programming, he is interested in all things engineering and he is a whiskey connoisseur in his private life.

He has been a curious scientist and explorer of things big and small ever since his childhood. In 2014, he received a doctoral degree in technical sciences. He is an academic lecturer at the Opole University of Technology’s Institute of Information Technology and he wrote numerous scientific publications, mostly concerning image processing. His main tools are cameras, lidars, and other radars.

As a member of our team, he is currently working a lot with measurement equipment. When he sees a bus or other vehicles, he immediately covers them with sensors in his mind. In his private life he is a cryptocurrency market enthusiast who has seen all possible crypto exchanges and witnessed impossible events. From time to time, he is also passionate about sports, willing to ride many kilometers on his bike and run any distance in a company T-shirt.

An algorithm specialist and software engineer with 10+ years of experience who is interested in artificial intelligence and computer vision. He is well experienced in commercial software engineering, which enables a unique approach to developing solutions involving machine learning. He specializes in areas such as design, implementation, and validation of complex systems.

His guiding principle is that you can learn and discover everything so his vocabulary does not include the words “it cannot be done”. When necessary, he is ready to get his hands dirty, taking our test vehicles apart to the last screw. In his free time, he enjoys learning how things work, especially different mechanisms. He is a Formula 1 enthusiast, not only in terms of racing, but also its technical aspects.

He graduated in IT at the Silesian University of Technology so long ago that he used to store his programs on 3.5-inch floppy disks and the Internet bandwidth was measured in kilobauds at the time. Since then, he has been finding the biggest joy in working with hardware so he has learned the ins and outs of programming microcontrollers. He is not afraid of ARM, Intel, C, assembler or even VHDL and he will do anything to tame registers, toolchains, and devicetrees. Debuggers and JTAGs help him with that.

When he is finally away from the keyboard and back home, he spends his free time playing with his kids as well as enjoying science fiction literature, board games, and kizomba. Lately, he has been exploring his new talent as a robotics and coding teacher at a kindergarten. The kids love playing with blocks, minirobots, and coding on the floor. However, this new role brings the most joy to himself. There are things you do not grow out of, as can also be seen in the photo.

He studies at the Silesian University of Technology. His studies and hobby projects were not enough for him so without wasting any time he embarked on his professional career to follow his interests and support our team’s work on vehicle autonomy. He is happy to take on any task involving hardware or software development. He spends a lot of time with our testing platform and sensors.

In his private life he enjoys long trips, both cycling and hiking, and loves music, including that played on one of his guitars.

An automation engineer by education. As a child, he thought that electronics (especially digital) was what tigers like best, but in the mid-1980s he discovered that there might be something better - computers and programming. He has already professionally dealt with vehicles running on rails and on tracks as well as unmanned aerial vehicles. Coming down to earth and moving in the urban tissue 🚌 is a new challenge for him and fascinating problems to solve.

He works in our team as a programmer who doesn't have his own box yet, which suits him very well because it gives him the opportunity to learn about various issues related to autonomous vehicles. He likes to spend his free time looking at huge amounts of good photos. Preferably at a rate of twenty-four per second.

Programmer, graduate of the Silesian University of Technology. In the team, he mainly deals with Continuous Integration issues, writing drivers and nodes in the Robot Operating System. Former board member of Hackerspace Silesia, organizer of Coding Dojo Silesia and co-organizer of Hacksilesia #2 and #3.

Additionally, he is a Python fanatic and a hobbyist of Arduino, FPGA and the C language.

Ten years ago he decided to deal with quality in projects. Since then, he has been constantly ensuring the applications development work. He persistently builds processes, never losing sight of small improvements. He sticks to the principle that it is better to automate than to do things manually. He has worked in several industries throughout his life, however he particularly appreciates the automotive sector for the aspect of creating products for ordinary people and improving their everyday lives.

In his spare time, he likes hiking in the mountains. He studies maps with constant curiosity and plans new routes. He likes creative activities, especially watercolor painting where he can be focused and find peace. He is still looking fot the answers why people do what they do in the works of Carl Jung.

Jakub is a graduate of mechatronics at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. During his studies, he worked in a company dealing with laser technologies, where he created devices for measuring the transmittance of plastics. He was a member of the "Robocik" scientific group, which created an autonomous submarine. As part of his master's thesis, he created a prototype of an autonomous robot for laser weed control. It helped him delve deeper into autonomous control, vision systems and neural network convolution. Currently, he is getting to know our project and he started to implement the AS team.

Beyond the programming aspects, he likes playing chess ♘ and basketball and recently he has been into cooking. He bakes delicious cookies that disappear quickly in the office.

Marcin is a graduate of the Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. He gained engineering experience as a member of a scientific club dealing with the use of AI methods, where he implemented mobile robotics projects. He was part of the team building the Mars rover and after the outbreak of the pandemic, he co-created a disinfection robot. During these projects, he learned about the use of ROS in robotics.

In the AS team, he engages in the lidars for an autonomous minibus and current issues related to the infrastructure of the test vehicle. He is also involved in matters related to point cloud fusion and the application of deep learning in stereovision.

In his free time, he watches the stock exchange, mainly the raw materials market. He likes hiking in the mountains whilst he goes snowboarding in the winter.

A graduate of Mechatronics and Automation and Robotics at the Faculty of Mechanical Technology of the Silesian University of Technology and from 2022 a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He tells about himself: combination of a scientist and a practitioner who liked to get his hands dirty, which ultimately encouraged him to seek scientific challenges away from the walls of the university. He has completed several projects in which he was responsible for, among others: autonomous planning of the measurement drone’s path and the remote control system of the microbus.

He considers himself a perfectionist, a man of action and a typical mechatronics engineer, consistently avoiding long conversations and narrow specializations. He has been working in #TeamAS for several months, where he deals with everything that the situation requires, according to the principle "if I don't know how, I will learn". In private life, he is an active enthusiast of all martial arts, a DIY enthusiast and a fan of traveling away from civilization, during which he reads Hawking and unsuccessfully tries to understand how the Universe works.

A graduate of the Silesian University of Technology and Cranfield University. He specializes in image processing and software development in C++. He began his adventure with autonomy during his master's studies by implementing a project of semantic image analysis for an autonomous car.

In our team, he is responsible for the implementation of location and controller algorithms which require extensive knowledge of algorithms, control and mathematical modeling. Privately, he is passionate about cycling and sailing.

Developer/architect with 15 years of experience, graduate of Computer Science at the Silesian University of Technology. He started his adventure as a .NET developer of desktop applications, web applications and he was also working as a specialist in databases and Big Data systems. Fascinated about technological innovations, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Sebastian is responsible for the integration of autonomy with the local operator's system. He loves learning new things and constantly improving his skills. Privately, he is a happy husband, father of two children and a bulldog. In his free time, he is passionate about MTB/Enduro, diving and traveling. Sebastian’s mail rule means: "if you want something done well, do it by yourself."

A programmer with 12 years of professional experience and a graduate of the Silesian University of Technology. He takes on any programming-related task with great enthusiasm, from mundane embedded systems and FPGA, through desktop apps, back-end and front-end, to cloud solutions.

Jacek is responsible for developing the sensory data acquisition system, integrating the GNSS technology with the autonomous driving platform, and for tasks involving embedded system programming. In his free time, he is an avid musician who plays the guitar for a band called Hipokamp as well as a beer and jazz connoisseur.