Otimo is made up of top-class specialists in various fields, with many years of business and academic experience.

The core of the team are the authors of Vehicle Routing Solver

– a globally unique vehicle routing tool that generates the best known results for the tested instances. For details, please visit the website of the independent Brazilian research institute Galgos, which keeps records of the best known solutions:

We have experts in algorithms, databases, statistics or IT architecture - so we complement one another’s competencies and create a full-fledged team, capable of taking up any challenge.

We turn our experience, know-how and passion into creating solutions for combinatorial optimization problems.

We invite you to learn more about the most crucial people of OTIMO, who are responsible for the company’s creation and success to date:

KRZYSZTOF

CHAŁADYN

Prezes Zarządu

Co-founder

Biznesmen, innowator

manager

Businessman, innovator, manager with many years of experience in launching pioneering solutions in the area of new technologies. For the last 10 years he has been co-creating (as owner, CEO, shareholder, project manager) startups and initiatives related to process optimization, machine learning, SaaS, computerization and broadly defined web services.

Being responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with key B2B clients, he executed multi-million contracts for the delivery of IT solutions.

He is involved in managing project groups, creating financial strategy and economic evaluation of projects. He specializes in identifying the needs of clients in the IT, logistics, warehouse management, transportation and e-commerce sectors and developing solutions to meet them. He has experience in leading and coordinating research and development projects and raising funds for their implementation (including through competitions conducted by NCBiR).

1. New technologies and their practical application in business and everyday life
2. Artificial intelligence
3. IT solutions in logistics
4. Poland’s startups market

PIOTR

CYBULA

Wiceprezes Zarządu

Co-founder

Informatyk-analityk,

ekspert do spraw baz danych

IT specialist-analyst, database expert with many years of academic (PhD in databases) and business experience (R&D expert, IT architect, programmer).

Co-developer of the Vehicle Routing Solver.

1. VRP Optimization (Vehicle Routing Problem)
2. JSP Optimization (Job Shop Optimization)
3. GIS systems (Geographic Information Systems)
4. Algorithms and data structures
5. C/C++/C# development
6. Systems analysis
7. Database architecture and APIs
8. Object-oriented programming and metaprogramming

1. „Deep infeasibility exploration method for vehicle routing problems”, Piotr Beling, Piotr Cybula, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Przemysław Pełka, Marek Rogalski, Piotr Sielski, EvoCOP 2022 European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, April 20-22, 2022, Madrid, Spain.
2. „Effective Recombination Operators for the family of Vehicle Routing Problems”, Piotr Cybula, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Przemysław Pełka, Marek Rogalski, Piotr Sielski, GECCO 2021, The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July 10-14, 2021, Lille, France.
3. „Deep infeasibility exploration method for vehicle routing problems”, Piotr Beling, Piotr Cybula, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Marek Rogalski, Piotr Sielski.
 SIGOPT 2020 International Conference on Optimization, March 4-6, 2020, Dortmund, Germany.
4. „Deep infeasibility exploration method for the vehicle routing problems”, Piotr Beling, Piotr Cybula, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Marek Rogalski, Piotr Sielski.
 20th Annual Workshop on Metaheuristics, May 15-16, 2019, Oslo, Norway.
5. „Effective Recombination Operators for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows”, Piotr Cybula, Piotr Beling, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Marek Rogalski, Piotr Sielski. (to be submitted soon). Presented at a conference: „State-of-the-art solver for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows based on recombination operators”, The 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, September 17-21, 2018, Poznań, Poland.
6. „New advanced heuristic methods for the VRP problem family”, Piotr Sielski, Piotr Cybula, Marek Rogalski, Piotr Beling and Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Emapa S.A., 29th European Conference On Operational Research EURO2018, July 8-11, 2018, Valencia, Spain (submitted to the European Journal of Operational Research).
7. „SMT-Based Reachability Checking for Bounded Time Petri Nets”, Agata Pólrola, Piotr Cybula, Artur Meski. Fundamenta Informaticae 135(4): 467-482 (2014). 
8. „Query Optimization by Result Caching in the Stack-Based Approach”, Piotr Cybula, Kazimierz Subieta. ICOODB 2010, Frankfurt am Mein, Germany, 2010: Springer LNCS 6348, 40-54.
9. „Optimization of Distributed Queries in Grid Via Caching”, Piotr Cybula, Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stencel, Kazimierz Subieta. OTM Workshops 2005, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 2005: Springer LNCS 3762, 387- 396.

MARIUSZ

KOK

Wiceprezes Zarządu

Co-founder

Architekt rozwiązań IT,

programista

IT specialist with many years of experience as a Solutions Architect and programmer. Certified Microsoft technology specialist: .NET Framework 4, Windows applications.

A member of the team responsible for creating the Vehicle Routing Solver.

1. C#, .NET Core, C++
2. Low-level software architecture
3. Programming and multi-threaded architecture
4. Object-oriented programming and metaprogramming
5. Reverse engineering

1. C++, C#, ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core
2. MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, SOQL
3. Git, Gerit, Bambo, Jira, TFS, TeamCity
4. PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, ExtJs, Bootstrap, Knockout, Leaflet, OpenLayers, Jasmine
5. Delphi, Pascal, Assembler

PIOTR

SIELSKI

Co-founder

Ekspert do spraw algorytmów,

Architekt oprogramowania

Algorithm expert with business experience (R&D project leader, software architect, programmer) and academic experience (PhD in quantum/classical statistics).

Lead designer of the Vehicle Routing Solver.

1. VRP Optimization (Vehicle Routing Problem)
2. JSP Optimization variants (Job Shop Optimization)
3. Evolutionary Algorithms
4. Deep Neighborhood Search Algorithms
5. Network Flow Algorithms
6. C++ Development 11/14/17
7. Low-level software architecture
8. Programming and multi-threaded architecture
9. General algorithms

1. „Deep infeasibility exploration method for vehicle routing problems”, Piotr Beling, Piotr Cybula, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Przemysław Pełka, Marek Rogalski, Piotr Sielski, EvoCOP 2022 European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, April 20-22, 2022, Madrid, Spain.
2. „Effective Recombination Operators for the family of Vehicle Routing Problems”, Piotr Cybula, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Przemysław Pełka, Marek Rogalski, Piotr Sielski, GECCO 2021, The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July 10-14, 2021, Lille, France.
3. „Deep infeasibility exploration method for vehicle routing problems”, Piotr Beling, Piotr Cybula, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Marek Rogalski, Piotr Sielski.
SIGOPT 2020 International Conference on Optimization, March 4-6, 2020, Dortmund, Germany.
4. „Deep infeasibility exploration method for the vehicle routing problems”,
Piotr Beling, Piotr Cybula, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Marek Rogalski, Piotr Sielski.
20th Annual Workshop on Metaheuristics, May 15-16, 2019, Oslo, Norway.
5. „Effective Recombination Operators for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows”, Piotr Cybula, Piotr Beling, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Marek Rogalski, Piotr Sielski. (to be submitted soon). Presented at a conference: „State-of-the-art solver for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows based on recombination operators”, The 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, September 17-21, 2018, Poznań, Poland.
6. „New advanced heuristic methods for the VRP problem family”, Piotr Sielski, Piotr Cybula, Marek Rogalski, Piotr Beling and Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Emapa S.A., 29th European Conference On Operational Research EURO2018, July 8-11, 2018, Valencia, Spain (submitted to the European Journal of Operational Research).
7. „On a new type of sufficiency in undominated models”, Statistics A Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics Volume 48, 2014 – Issue 3.

PRZEMYSŁAW

PEŁKA

Co-founder

Programista,

pasjonat sztucznej inteligencji

Programmer, artificial intelligence enthusiast, focused on projects related to widely understood problem-solving and decision-making.

A member of the team responsible for creating the Vehicle Routing Solver.

1. Operational research
2. Artificial intelligence
3. Data analysis
4. Cognitive Science
5. Python, C++, CUDA

He conducted a two-year research project on HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) learning at the Lodz University of Technology in collaboration with Harvard University. The project ended with the inter-university work as well as with the design and implementation of a system improving vocabulary acquisition through watching subtitled movies.

1. „Deep infeasibility exploration method for vehicle routing problems”, Piotr Beling, Piotr Cybula, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Przemysław Pełka, Marek Rogalski, Piotr Sielski, EvoCOP 2022 European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, April 20-22, 2022, Madrid, Spain.

MAREK

ROGALSKI

Co-founder

Administrator, researcher, programmer

Administrator, researcher, programmer

A member of the team responsible for creating the Vehicle Routing Solver.

1. „Deep infeasibility exploration method for vehicle routing problems”, Piotr Beling, Piotr Cybula, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Przemysław Pełka, Marek Rogalski, Piotr Sielski, EvoCOP 2022 European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, April 20-22, 2022, Madrid, Spain.