Summary
Nikola Tanković is an owner, researcher, and assistant professor with a PhD in computer science and over a decade of experience building scalable distributed systems, AI/ML pipelines, and blockchain-enabled applications. He blends academic rigor with hands-on product delivery, having led CTO roles and consulting engagements that produced GenAI conversational interfaces, high-throughput e-commerce microservices on AWS, and big-data ML pipelines for Fortune 200–500 clients. Comfortable from low-level performance optimization to cloud-native architecture, he specializes in RAG/SQL-RAG, CoT, model-driven development, and decentralised applications. Based in Pula, Croatia, he continues to publish and teach while running a consultancy that translates scientific results into commercial software—an uncommon mix that has seen his work visualize MIT Media Lab research and contribute to Apache projects via Google Summer of Code.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School, General Studies, High School, General Studies at GSSJD Pazin
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Magna cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Magna cum laude at University of Zagreb
English, Croatian, Italian