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

  • 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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  • The AI Service Desk: Filling the L1 Gap Before You Hire for It

    It starts with “just a quick question” Every product and engineering team knows the pattern. Someone pings a chat thread with “I need a new ___”, “I have a problem with ___”, or “can you check the ___”. Then comes the back-and-forth: what exactly is broken, which environment, did it ever work, what did you…

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  • 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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Zagreb, Croatia

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