Dr. Jakub Kotowski

Senior developer. Design and development of an in-house big data pipeline software. Development of algorithms based on the Hadoop stack. Large scale data processing - dataset understanding, cleaning, transforming. Work with Hadoop, Cascading, Pig, Lingual, Solr, deduplication and sentiment analysis tools.

Developed map-reduce algorithms and big data pipeline software as a member of the Data Intensive Infrastructures Unit (DI2). Contributed to Lion 2, LOD2, and Insight (Linked Data) EU projects.

Skill sharing startup.

Knowledge representation and reasoning for the KiWi semantic media platform (now the Linked Media Framework). Thesis about incremental algorithms for maintenance of materialized views in deductive databases. Advisor: François Bry http://www.kiwi-project.eu http://code.google.com/p/lmf/

Sun technologies evangelism among LMU students.

Worked on Service Oriented Architecture governance system as a member of Policy Manager team. Responsible for Java generated reports about web services validation results, analysis and programming of new Policy Manager features in Java J2EE.

Started on automatization of Solaris and Java Desktop System testing, then became member of translation tools team that managed the Sun Translation Memory (TM) system and translation workflow. Responsible for developing automated tests and utilities for the TM, fixing bugs, implementing new features. Lead a small team of interns that implemented my idea how to facilitate software project management in globalization division of Sun Microsystems using Semantic Web technologies.

Constructive reasoning, deductive databases, semantic web. Knowledge representation and reasoning for the KiWi semantic media platform - now Apache Marmotta. Thesis about incremental algorithms for maintenance of materialized views in deductive databases.

Theoretical computer science, non-procedural programming, artificial intelligence, machine learning.