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

  • Do we need a frontend at all?

    Every organisation has a legacy application that people depend on, that badly needs a refresh, and whose ageing technology makes that refresh hard to do. The instinct is to rebuild the interface on something modern. Before committing to that, I wanted to check an assumption hiding inside it — that the answer to a bad…

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  • A day with an undocumented legacy app

    Most companies have one. Critical to the business, running on a frontend that aged badly, and documented nowhere. Replacing it gets discussed every year and never scoped, because nobody can say what it would take. I ran an experiment on one of them with Claude, to find out whether that question was actually hard or…

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  • The cat sat on the…

    There are many ways to explain AI. Neural networks. Transformers. Large language models. Attention mechanisms. Embeddings. Agents. RAG. MCP. And, if you want to keep things simple, use that one example everyone loves: “The cat sat on the…” You’ve probably seen it. It’s one of those wonderfully simple examples used to explain how language models…

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Where am I?

Zagreb, Croatia

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