Janos Sallai

Background

About Janos Sallai

Tech leader who successfully built and managed a multidisciplinary team of engineers to develop a suite of revolutionary public safety products. Bootstrapped the engineering operations of a tech startup, from infrastructure and tools decisions through mapping dreams and vision to strategic roadmap, product definition, tasks, and code. Started and grown a major open-source project with a global community of 100+ researchers in the molecular dynamics simulation/HPC field. Coming from a long career in academia, I have a strong interest in research and technical analysis. I am excited about everything new and challenging: I love to explore and build prototypes, including very ambitious ones. I enjoy working in interdisciplinary teams and believe in the cross-pollination of ideas. I have always been thrilled to pivot to new fields, ranging from low-power wireless MCUs, through deep neural networks, to molecular dynamics simulations on supercomputers. I have written and contributed to writing research proposals that resulted in awarded funding totaling over $20M, authored over 70 research papers and 3 patents, and given dozens of technical talks and presentations. I am a passionate mentor who finds it extraordinarily rewarding to invest time and effort into motivated talent. I excel at fostering momentum and inspiring my team to achieve their best. I take pride in the success of those I work with, irrespective of where they end up in life. I am a hands-on software development engineer with a PhD, possessing a unique combination of breadth and depth in technical expertise. With a diverse skill set spanning multiple platforms and domains, I have developed software for everything from low-power microcontrollers and desktop/mobile applications to high-performance supercomputing environments. My experience covers a wide range of sectors, including e-commerce, full-stack web development, hardware drivers, network stacks, data science, machine learning, and modeling and simulation in scientific domains ranging from electrical engineering to molecular dynamics. I have an aversion to the low hanging fruit.