Hacker News: pgryko

New comment by pgryko in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

pgryko — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:12:11 +0000

Training AI models on videos of drones scrapped from public sources. Everyone in Europe is building ani drone systems and nobody has real data. Lots of companies operating on synthetics only.

Lots of work to automatically filter and process scraped footage into something that will train well.

New comment by pgryko in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)"

pgryko — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:09:43 +0000

Location: Warsaw, Poland (open to remote, can relocate) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies:

AI/ML: PyTorch, Diffusion Models, YOLO, NER, LLMs (LLAMA, GPT), RAG systems, Computer Vision, Pandas, NumPy

Backend: Python, Django, FastAPI, AsyncIO, Microservices, REST APIs, C/C++, Elasticsearch, ChromaDB, Snowflake, Docker, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Modal.com, ETL pipelines

Frontend: React, TypeScript, Konva.js, Plotly.js, Material UI

Other: MLflow, Optuna, DevOps (Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, AWS, DigitalOcean), Embedded (Arduino, ESP32)

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13qEnfqLrY2CeYfyGgeAq0Uin...

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotr-gryko-7bb43725/

GitHub: https://github.com/pgryko

Email: piotr.gryko@gmail.com

Website: https://www.piotrgryko.com/

Senior ML/AI Engineer & Technical Leader with 12+ years building AI/ML systems, scalable backend architectures, and document intelligence platforms. PhD in experimental Physics.

Deep expertise in diffusion models, LLMs, retrieval systems, and real-time pipelines.

Frequent conference speaker (EuroPython 2025, PyCon Lithuania 2024/2025, Data Science Summit). Organizer of AI code and coffee meetup in Warsaw.

Experienced at bridging research → production, mentoring teams, and scaling MVPs to products with significant revenue impact.

New comment by pgryko in "As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise"

pgryko — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:25:50 +0000

We are now moving to a post human economy. When AGI automates all human labour, the consumer i.e. the bulk of humanity stops mattering (economically speaking). It then just becomes Mega corps run by machines making stuff for each other. Resources are then strictly priorities for the machines over everything else. We are seeing this movement already with silicon wafers and electricity.

New comment by pgryko in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?"

pgryko — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:39:56 +0000

Sales - especially B2B. I've got a strong technical background (PhD in Physics) and have been writing code for almost 15 years (most domains, with ML more recently). I'm also comfortable with public speaking (talking a conferences, pitching etc). I feel sales is the last piece of the puzzle I'm missing

New comment by pgryko in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)"

pgryko — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:31:53 +0000

Location: Warsaw, Poland (open to remote, can relocate) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies:

AI/ML: PyTorch, Diffusion Models, YOLO, NER, LLMs (LLAMA, GPT), RAG systems, Computer Vision, Pandas, NumPy

Backend: Python, Django, FastAPI, AsyncIO, Microservices, REST APIs, C/C++, Elasticsearch, ChromaDB, Snowflake, Docker, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Modal.com, ETL pipelines

Frontend: React, TypeScript, Konva.js, Plotly.js, Material UI

Other: MLflow, Optuna, DevOps (Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, AWS, DigitalOcean), Embedded (Arduino, ESP32)

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13qEnfqLrY2CeYfyGgeAq0Uin...

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotr-gryko-7bb43725/

GitHub: https://github.com/pgryko

Email: piotr.gryko@gmail.com

Website: https://www.piotrgryko.com/

Senior ML/AI Engineer & Technical Leader with 12+ years building AI/ML systems, scalable backend architectures, and document intelligence platforms. PhD in experimental Physics.

Deep expertise in diffusion models, LLMs, retrieval systems, and real-time pipelines.

Frequent conference speaker (EuroPython 2025, PyCon Lithuania 2024/2025, Data Science Summit). Organizer of AI code and coffee meetup in Warsaw.

Experienced at bridging research → production, mentoring teams, and scaling MVPs to products with significant revenue impact.

New comment by pgryko in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

pgryko — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:30:42 +0000

Collecting public datasets for training visual AI models to track and target drones.

Drones are real bastards - there's a lot of startups working on anti drone systems and interceptors, but most of them are using synthetic data. The data I'm collecting is designed to augment the synthetic data, so anti drone systems are closer to field testing

New comment by pgryko in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)"

pgryko — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:50:18 +0000

Location: Warsaw, Poland (open to remote, can relocate) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies:

AI/ML: PyTorch, Diffusion Models, YOLO, NER, LLMs (LLAMA, GPT), RAG systems, Computer Vision, Pandas, NumPy

Backend: Python, Django, FastAPI, AsyncIO, Microservices, REST APIs, C/C++, Elasticsearch, ChromaDB, Snowflake, Docker, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Modal.com, ETL pipelines

Frontend: React, TypeScript, Konva.js, Plotly.js, Material UI

Other: MLflow, Optuna, DevOps (Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, AWS, DigitalOcean), Embedded (Arduino, ESP32)

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13qEnfqLrY2CeYfyGgeAq0Uin...

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotr-gryko-7bb43725/

GitHub: https://github.com/pgryko

Email: piotr.gryko@gmail.com

Website: https://www.piotrgryko.com/

Senior ML/AI Engineer & Technical Leader with 12+ years building AI/ML systems, scalable backend architectures, and document intelligence platforms. PhD in experimental Physics.

Deep expertise in diffusion models, LLMs, retrieval systems, and real-time pipelines.

Frequent conference speaker (EuroPython 2025, PyCon Lithuania 2024/2025, Data Science Summit). Organizer of AI code and coffee meetup in Warsaw.

Experienced at bridging research → production, mentoring teams, and scaling MVPs to products with significant revenue impact.

New comment by pgryko in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

pgryko — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:25:32 +0000

Anonymization of PII data in documents using diffusion models - I'm in the process of reproducing academic papers. The idea is you can replace sensitive information from financial/medical documents with synthetic analogues without visually altering them, so they can be kept/used for AI training

New comment by pgryko in "AI's Biggest Threat: Young People Who Can't Think"

pgryko — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:11:42 +0000

What happens when AGI is able to think better than us? Will governments close schools and universities as its no longer economically useful?

New comment by pgryko in "The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food"

pgryko — Sun, 04 May 2025 10:55:24 +0000

One step closer to making cystypigs from the game the outer worlds

https://theouterworlds.fandom.com/wiki/Cystypig

New comment by pgryko in "40% of Britons haven't read a single book in the last 12 months"

pgryko — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 08:32:42 +0000

I suspect it doesn't capture how knowledge is ingested now. I haven't read a book in over a year now. But I do read papers (academic), news articles, technical blogs and YouTube lectures.

I practically don't have the time to read for leisure - tech moves very quickly, and that takes up the bulk of my thinking/study time/energy

New comment by pgryko in "Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform"

pgryko — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:03:33 +0000

Can anyone recommend good science or ml people to follow on bluesky? I've moved from twitter, but haven't quite found as interesting content yet, especially with ML - seems like they are still posting on twitter

New comment by pgryko in "PostgreSQL Anonymizer"

pgryko — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:10:30 +0000

Are these tools able to automatically identify PII information or do you have to specify columns and data types manually? What happens if you have PII data in a string field? Do you just rely on something like spacy to identify the PII data?

New comment by pgryko in "Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)"

pgryko — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 09:22:17 +0000

Late stage capitalism - why would they pay athletes properly?

New comment by pgryko in "First live birth using Fertilo procedure that matures eggs outside the body"

pgryko — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 12:26:22 +0000

'With nearly half of the women in the US never reaching their maternity goals, there is an urgent need for innovation' - did they just describe having children like a KPI?

New comment by pgryko in "Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?"

pgryko — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:43:38 +0000

- nuclear drones

- another big drug breakthrough similar to ozempic

More broadly over the next decade, a technological renaissance, a sociological regression

New comment by pgryko in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2024)"

pgryko — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:12:08 +0000

SEEKING WORK, REMOTE

Location: Warsaw

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: AI processing microservices (layoutllm, detectron, pytorch), Real time processing pipelines (rabbitmq, aio pika, python, docker), business logic (django, django ninja), frontend UIs (reactjs, konvas js), Devops (Ansible, Docker, Linux), Some embedded experience with C/C++

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_7ol5xe_brjuQHVo7ZACLZlq...

Email: piotr.gryko@gmail.com

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotr-gryko-7bb43725/

Senior Software Engineer with 12 years experience of software development. Predominantly focused on python. I'm a quick learner and have a PhD in physics. Examples of projects worked on:

* Developed an AI document processing and anonymization platform with layoutllm, detectorn, django, django ninja, rabbitmq, OpenSearch, react, typescript, and Konvas js.

* Data processing pipelines using RabbitMQ and pydantic

* Developed a backend engineering platform with django, django rest framework, celerity, pandas, snowflake, MongoDB, and python.

* Developed a web development platform with Django, reactjs, redux + material ui, plotlyjs.

* Developed a Data Analysis platform with python, numpy, pandas, jupyter notebooks.

* Developed a Devops & sysadmin platform with docker, jenkins, digital ocean, postgres replication, ansible, elastic stack.

* Developed an Embedded Development platform with C++, arduino, ESP8266, ESP32.

* Managed a team of 3 - 4 developers.

New comment by pgryko in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)"

pgryko — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:08:43 +0000

Location: Warsaw

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_7ol5xe_brjuQHVo7ZACLZlq...

Email: piotr.gryko@gmail.com

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotr-gryko-7bb43725/

Senior Software Engineer with 12 years experience of software development. Predominantly focused on python. I'm a quick learner and have a PhD in physics. Examples of projects worked on:

* Developed an AI document processing and anonymization platform with layoutllm, detectorn, django, django ninja, rabbitmq, OpenSearch, react, typescript, and Konvas js.

* Data processing pipelines using RabbitMQ and pydantic

* Developed a backend engineering platform with django, django rest framework, celerity, pandas, snowflake, MongoDB, and python.

* Developed a web development platform with Django, reactjs, redux + material ui, plotlyjs.

* Developed a Data Analysis platform with python, numpy, pandas, jupyter notebooks.

* Developed a Devops & sysadmin platform with docker, jenkins, digital ocean, postgres replication, ansible, elastic stack.

* Developed an Embedded Development platform with C++, arduino, ESP8266, ESP32.

* Developed a Magento commerce development platform with php.

* Managed a team of 3 - 4 developers.

Volunteer work: I run a tech meetup in Warsaw Called AI Code and Coffee, where we helped new starters get into software development. Volunteered at Europython2023 and ran a pytorch sprint over the weekend https://ep2023.europython.eu/sprints#pytorch---tensors-and-d...

New comment by pgryko in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)"

pgryko — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:11:40 +0000

Location: Warsaw

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_7ol5xe_brjuQHVo7ZACLZlq...

Email: piotr.gryko@gmail.com

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotr-gryko-7bb43725/

Senior Software Engineer with 12 years experience of software development. Predominantly focused on python. I'm a quick learner and have a PhD in physics. Examples of projects worked on:

* Developed an AI document processing and anonymization platform with layoutllm, detectorn, django, django ninja, OpenSearch, react, typescript, and Konvas js.

* Data processing pipelines using RabbitMQ and pydantic

* Developed a backend engineering platform with django, django rest framework, celerity, pandas, snowflake, MongoDB, and python.

* Developed a web development platform with Django, reactjs, redux + material ui, plotlyjs.

* Developed a Data Analysis platform with python, numpy, pandas, jupyter notebooks.

* Developed a Devops & sysadmin platform with docker, jenkins, digital ocean, postgres replication, ansible, elastic stack.

* Developed an Embedded Development platform with C++, arduino, ESP8266, ESP32.

* Developed a Magento commerce development platform with php.

* Managed a team of 3 - 4 developers.

New comment by pgryko in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2024)"

pgryko — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:44:15 +0000

SEEKING WORK | London

Technologies: Fullstack + devops. Python, Django, FastAPI, Pydantic, Pandas, Jupyter notebooks, Reactjs, Typescript, Postgresql, Ansible, Docker, Microservices, Linux. Some embedded experience with C/C++

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ag5S_2ZMuu-d4sPu98a7bGxd...

Email: piotr.gryko@gmail.com

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotr-gryko-7bb43725/

Senior Software Engineer with 12 years experience of software development. Predominantly focused on python. I'm a quick learner and have a PhD in physics. Examples of projects worked on:

* Developed a document processing and anonymization platform with django, django ninja, react, typescript, and Konvas js.

* Data processing pipelines using RabbitMQ and pydantic

* Developed a backend engineering platform with django, django rest framework, celerity, pandas, snowflake, MongoDB, and python.

* Developed a web development platform with Django, reactjs, redux + material ui, plotlyjs.

* Developed a Data Analysis platform with python, numpy, pandas, jupyter notebooks.

* Developed a Devops & sysadmin platform with docker, jenkins, digital ocean, postgres replication, ansible, elastic stack.

* Developed an Embedded Development platform with C++, arduino, ESP8266, ESP32.

* Managed a team of 3 - 4 developers.