Employment

Know-Center Graz, Austria (January 2021 - Present)

Operations Area Manager

Social Computing Team at Know-Center.
Development and consulting on industry projects in the domain of real-time recommendations.

Know-Center Graz, Austria (September 2016 - December 2020)

Software Engineer & Scientific Researcher

Social Computing Team at Know-Center.
Development and consulting on industry projects in the domain of real-time recommendations.

Graz University of Technology Graz, Austria (October 2013 - August 2016)

University/Project Assistant

Social Computing Team at Know-Center.
Addressing issues associated with knowledge extraction and, construction and utilization of social network data with the objective to deliver relevant information to businesses and users.
EU funded project Learning Layers, supported by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Program.

1&1 Internet AG Karlsruhe, Germany (January 2013 - September 2013)

Junior Software Developer

Ruby development on internal central administration and monitoring solution used by the Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and IT Operations (ITO) departments.
Project development through Scrum.

FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe, Germany (May 2012 - November 2012)

Java Developer

Developing for the Mirror project (co-funded by European Commission IST 7th Framework Program ).

Infobip Zagreb, Croatia (May 2011 - January 2012)

Software Engineer

Design, development and maintenance of enterprise applications in the field of mobile cloud services (SMS, HLR, USSD, etc.).

Ericsson Zagreb, Croatia (July 2010 - September 2010)

Java developer

Design, implementation and testing solutions for the information system of primary healthcare.

Education

Graz University of TechnologyGraz, Austria (July 2022)

PhD (with distinction) in Computer Science

Thesis: Real-time Recommender Systems in Multi-Domain Settings
( .pdf ) ( slides )

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Zagreb, Croatia (December 2012)

M.Sc. in Computing

Specialization: Software Engineering and Information Systems
Erasmus & Master Thesis: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe,Germany

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Zagreb, Croatia (July 2010)

B.Sc. in Computing

Specialization: Software Engineering and Information Systems

Professional skills

Certification:

Agile Software Engineering (ASE) Agile software development process and Scrum at Andrena Objects AG in Karlsruhe, Germany (August, 2012)

Other:

Programming

  • Java
  • Ruby
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • C#

Languages

  • Croatian (Native)
  • English (C1)
  • German (C1)
  • Russian (A1)