Jan Kalasnikov
Product Engineer & AI Lead · Prague, CZ
Product engineer with 8+ years across consulting and education. I work end-to-end — writing code and shipping products, not just writing specs — while owning strategy, roadmaps, and the commercial side. Currently leading ScioBot at SCIO, generative AI tools used by 130,000+ teachers across 5,500 schools in CEE. Before that, 3 years at Blindspot AI (Adastra) owning AskYourData and LLM Gateway for enterprise clients in pharma, telco, banking and the public sector — from technical pre-sales to EU AI Act governance.
Outside of that I'm always shipping side projects — small production AI products and experiments, usually built solo. Entrepreneurial by nature, with a track record of turning ideas into working products, usually by building them myself.
FEATURED PROJECTS
EXPERIENCE
A few places I've worked. Mostly AI product, increasingly hands-on.
Leading product strategy and hands-on development of ScioBot — generative AI tools used by 130,000+ teachers across 5,500 schools in CEE. Core engineer on frontend, UX, and LLM prompt/agent design alongside two senior engineers. Co-authored monetization that generated 40k+ EUR in 3 months, initiated the Google Cloud partnership (50k USD credits), and led migration from Anthropic to Gemini. Drives company-wide AI adoption — internal guidelines, Cursor workshops, and a vibe-coding hackathon.
Product owner of AskYourData (enterprise RAG on Azure AI) and LLM Gateway (multi-provider proxy with observability, governance, guardrails). Closed the first international deal — 100k+ EUR with a Swedish construction engineering firm. Led the engineering team on the Czech Parliamentary Elections prediction model, distributed commercially to Seznam Zprávy. EU AI Act compliance work with DENTONS, plus technical pre-sales across pharma, telco, banking, insurance, automotive, logistics and the public sector. Appointed by the CAIO to lead internal AI adoption across the org.
Owned end-to-end product for an ecosystem of 21 kids-edutainment apps (Lipa Zoo, Lipa Eggs, Lipa Band…) with 400k+ installs. Unified everything under a single platform, simplified monetization, and prepped EU re-launch with a UK marketing agency.
Co-founded one of the first EU platforms turning home cooks into micro-entrepreneurs in Stockholm. €650k pre-seed, MVP built and scaled, 2,500+ meals delivered, 34 chefs onboarded, last-mile partnership with Gordon Delivery.
Built a React Native app for maintenance workers streaming real-time washing-machine data through Azure for live monitoring and diagnostics.
Web, AI integrations, data analysis, and automation for Samkonsult, Sensfoods, AOMU, Homecapital (DRFG), Flatform, Hirolabs, and others. Co-founded MujHrdina; ran GoBasket as my first startup during studies.
SELECTED WORK
Recent projects, mostly shipped with small teams or solo.
- RekofitApartment renovation pricing portal with odhad-zdarma API + lead admin.↗
- InspeqtAI automation for Swedish construction inspections — drawing parsing and report generation.↗
- ScioBot NextRefresh of ScioBot with new agentic features, C# API, PostHog analytics.↗
- FiltrdB2B SaaS for product managers — Vercel AI SDK, Supabase, Gemini RAG.↗
- ScentiaCanvas-based learning path generator with 11labs voice.↗
- SamkonsultInternal tool for a Swedish client — AI transcripts of online calls.↗
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EDUCATION
LANGUAGES
- English · C1
- Czech · Native
- French · B1
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