Curriculum vitae
Tibor Sloboda
AI Consultant, Researcher & Systems Engineer
relations@slobodaapl.dev · Slovakia
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€30-150/hour; long-term €320-1,200 per 8-hour day. Both ranges exclude applicable VAT; scope and rate agreed before paid work.
Profile
AI researcher, consultant, and systems engineer working across machine learning, data engineering, infrastructure, and scientific computing. Experience includes technical leadership, hands-on implementation, production AI systems, and research in medical imaging and chemistry.
Available for consulting, contracts, advisory work, research collaborations, and fractional leadership. Open to exceptional full-time opportunities.
Experience
aleph0 · Business Owner
May 2025-present · Slovakia
Separate venture developing low-level AI software for heterogeneous hardware, particularly edge systems. Work includes hardware-specific compiled models, a single-binary runtime, and model optimization. It is in development and will be released open source when ready.
NetFire · AI engineering & leadership
June 2023-present
VP of Artificial Intelligence Strategy, October 2024-present. Previously Applied Data Science Lead, January-October 2024, and Applied Data Science Engineer, June 2023-January 2024.
Technical strategy, engineering leadership, and hands-on prototyping across AI products and infrastructure. See selected work for examples of my engineering and leadership responsibilities.
Euforion · Lead AI Engineer
June 2024-May 2025
Image-plagiarism detection, AI-based watermarking, and backend development for artists' image data. Distributed GPU processing with load balancing and dynamic batching.
MLTox.online · Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer
September 2021-January 2023
Machine learning research for phototoxicity prediction, including descriptor investigation, alongside versioning and CI/CD for the public web application.
Education
PhD candidate, Artificial Intelligence · September 2023-present
Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology. Research focus on multimodal systems and generative models.
Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence · 2021-2023
Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology.
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science · 2018-2021
Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology.
Research
My PhD research at FIIT STU focuses on multimodal systems and generative models. I am also interested in the mathematical foundations of multimodal learning and the practical constraints of running models on different hardware. Earlier work applied machine learning to medical imaging and phototoxicity prediction; my publications also include guarded query routing for LLMs.
More about my research and publications ->
Selected honours
Student of the Year · November 2024
Slovak University of Technology, faculty-level recognition for research results and contributions.
Dean's Award · November 2024
FIIT STU, for research results.
Slovak Academy of Sciences Award · June 2023
Issued by ÚI SAV, for research results and publication activity.
Dean's Award · June 2023
FIIT STU, for diploma thesis work and results.
TPCup winning team · June 2022
FIIT STU, team software-product competition.
Languages & availability
Based in Slovakia. Remote worldwide; on-site visits by arrangement. Up to 80 hours/month, with an immediate start possible. Fluent English (C2), Czech, Slovak.