Hi, I’m Darko!

IT Professional, MBA

Bridging Tech, Business and People with Creativity & Energy

My superpowers

Business Analysis

Project Management

I like to write…

…and to learn

Biography

With 25+ years of experience in software development – 10 of those in business analysis and project management – I’ve successfully led cross-functional teams in delivering complex software solutions for international clients. With strategic mindset and operational experience, I focused my expertise to an environments where technology plays a key role in optimizing business processes and ensuring compliance.

My experience covers the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to implementation, ensuring that business needs are translated into effective digital solutions. I thrive in complex environments, quickly adapt to industry standards, and bring a strong growth mindset to mastering new domains.

Latest thoughts

  • A feature engineering experiment from my garden

    Can AI tell good Ajvar from bad Ajvar? This year, I grew vegetables, again. Nothing particularly revolutionary about that. Mostly peppers, and a few other things. Then came the inevitable question: What do you actually do with all of it? The answer, at least in this part of Europe, is obvious: Make ajvar. But while…

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  • AI is not a feature strategy

    A chatbot here.A recommendation engine there.AI-generated content.A predictive model.A copilot added to an existing product. It looks like progress. But adding AI to products is not the same as having an AI strategy. Features answer “what?” An AI feature strategy usually starts with a technology: “Where can we add AI to our product?” This can…

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  • What actually happens inside a neural network

    Most explanations stop at the diagram or jump straight to the calculus. I wanted the bit in between, so I animated it. Six minutes, eight examples. One real input travels through a five-layer network, every weighted sum resolves into an actual number, the loss gets calculated, and the error flows back through every weight. Then…

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Where am I?

Zagreb, Croatia

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