About
I’m Jakub Žovák, a Senior Data Scientist at Filevine, based in Brno, Czechia.
I have a strong theoretical background in machine learning, AI, and data processing, along with practical experience in areas like information retrieval, NLP, and neural networks.
As a speaker and educator, I enjoy sharing my knowledge on technical and other topics. Feel free to reach out to collaborate.
# Experience
- Senior Data Scientist — Filevine
- Teaching Assistant — Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
- PV026 — Large Language Models (2026)
- PA195 — NoSQL Databases (2025, 2026)
- PB138 — Basics of Web Development (2025, 2026)
- Senior AI Engineer — GoodData
- Proposed and implemented evaluation infrastructure for the GoodData AI assistant
- Leveraged the DSPy framework for automatic prompt optimization
- Improved the information retrieval pipeline for better-quality outputs
- Data Scientist — DataSentics (an Eviden business)
- Fine-tuned transformer-based models for text classification in the finance domain
- Built data pipelines using the Medallion Architecture on Databricks
- Developed customized RAG-based AI assistants
- Full Stack & Frontend Developer — Bluesoft
- Contributed to the Sazka.cz portal; designed RESTful APIs in C#/ASP.NET; deployed on Azure
- Junior Frontend Developer — Invasys
- Built and maintained a large AngularJS web application with a Node.js/MySQL backend
- Software Tester — Touch4IT
- Wrote end-to-end tests in JavaScript using Puppeteer and Jest
# Education
- MSc — Artificial Intelligence and Data Processing, Masaryk University, Brno
- BSc — Computer Science, Masaryk University, Brno
# Certifications
- Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate
- Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional
- Databricks Certified Machine Learning Associate
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
- Qdrant Multi-Vector Search
- Qdrant Essentials
# Languages
- English — professional working proficiency
- Slovak — native / bilingual
- French — limited working proficiency