Jan Škoda

Work & projects

• Founder of Liquidity Labs, cryptocurrency market-making/algo-trading firm.
• Founder of Crypto Lake data provider offering high-frequency historical order book data for quants.
• ✔ Head of Research at Quantlane
• ✔ Python developer at Quantlane
• Contributor of open-source projects like pandas or aiodebug.
  I am author of the tiny youtrack-cli tool and circular-buffer library.
• ✔ Czech insurance companies comparison
• ✔ Network administration team member at Gymnázium, Plzeň
• ✔ Python developer at Procedural Inc. (UK)
• ✔ Senior Server Administrator at Geosense s.r.o.
• ✔ Junior Enterprise Java Developer at IBM Czech Republic
• ✔ Co-Founder of ITOL s.r.o.
• ✔ OFIGHT high-school programming team member

Education

• University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • ✔ Internship at the Intelligent Robot Laboratory
• Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
  • ✔ Master
  • ✔ Bachelor
• ✔ Gymnázium, Plzeň (high school)

Publications & talks

• Algo-trading in crypto
  • UTXO Prague 2023 talk
• Performance tuning in Python
  • PyCon Prague 2019 talk
• Bringing C performance to Python code
  • PyCon Prague 2017 talk
• 3D Navigation for Mobile Robots
  • Master thesis, MFF UK, Prague, 2017
• 3D Navigation for Mobile Robot
  • Published and presented at the 3rd Yamabico Symposium in Tokyo, 2016
• Camera-Based Localisation and Stabilization of a Flying Drone
  • Coauthor prof. RNDr. Roman Barták Ph.D
  • Published at the FLAIRS Conference in Hollywood, 2015
• Simultaneous localization and mapping with the AR. Drone quadricopter
  • Bachellor thesis, MFF UK, Prague, 2014

Free time

• Canoer, golfer, badminton and squash player
• ✔ Amateur photographer
• ✔ Programming seminars for high school students organizer