Summary
Jacek Golebiowski is a Berlin-based ML scientist and founder, currently co-founder of distil labs, bringing a decade of research-driven engineering to a hands-on startup. At AWS and Amazon, he led teams building LLM-based systems and developed specialized 'small' language models that attain task-specific accuracy at a fraction of size, while advancing tool use and human-in-the-loop evaluation. He also led efforts to measure and improve fairness in search rankings, driving diversification of results to improve visibility for underrepresented products and minority customers. A core contributor to open-source ML tooling as a developer of the SyneTune HPO library, his work emphasizes sample-efficient optimization and multi-objective approaches. He holds a Master’s in Theory and Simulation of Materials from Imperial College London and a Bachelor's in Theoretical and Experimental Physics from the University of Warsaw, underscoring a strong quantitative foundation that informs his ML research and product leadership.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Distincition, Distincition at Imperial College London
English, Polish, French, German