EST. 1999

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.

2025 — NOW
Product Engineer & PM at SCIO

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.

2022 — 2025
AI Product Manager at Blindspot AI / Adastra

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.

2022
Product Manager at Lipa Land

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.

2020 — 2023
Co-Founder at PlateHero

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.

2020 — 2021
Software Engineer Intern at Nilfisk

Built a React Native app for maintenance workers streaming real-time washing-machine data through Azure for live monitoring and diagnostics.

2018 — 2021
Freelancer at Denmark

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.

EXPERTISE

CLOUD & AI
Azure AI FoundryGoogle Vertex AIAWS BedrockGenerative AIRAGLLM Gateways
BUILD
ReactTypeScriptVercelSupabaseCursorClaude CodeLovableFast prototyping
PRODUCT
FigmaJIRA / ConfluenceLooker StudioGrafanaUser researchRoadmapping
BUSINESS & AI ADOPTION
AI adoptionTechnical pre-salesAI governanceEU AI ActStakeholder mgmtRFPs

TECH I WORK WITH

Cursor
Lovable
React
TypeScript
Azure
Vercel
Next.js
Google Cloud
Supabase
Cursor
Lovable
React
TypeScript
Azure
Vercel
Next.js
Google Cloud
Supabase
Cursor
Lovable
React
TypeScript
Azure
Vercel
Next.js
Google Cloud
Supabase

EDUCATION

2018 — 2022
BSc, Computer Science
University College of Northern Denmark

LANGUAGES

  • English · C1
  • Czech · Native
  • French · B1

CONTACT

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