Aniko Kovač
Engineering Manager at HTEC
Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolAniko Kovač is an engineering manager and former computational linguist with 11 years of experience building and scaling ML-driven products and teams. Currently leading engineering and delivery at HTEC, she has grown organizations from 30 to 50+ engineers across data engineering, ML, backend and GIS projects while driving multi-million-dollar optimizations and sustained account growth. She combines hands-on ownership of ML pipelines—from data collection through deployment—to strategic leadership that shaped software used by roughly a hundred million users. Comfortable translating linguistic research into production systems, she brings deep expertise in dialogue systems and multilingual NLP for South Slavic languages alongside practical experience in multimodal classification. Known for a “Delight, not just deliver” philosophy, she prioritizes team development and operational independence through knowledge-sharing and process design.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Anglistik und Amerikanistik at Alpen-Adria Universität KlagenfurtMaster of Arts (MA), English Philology, Master of Arts (MA), English Philology at University of Novi SadMSc Language Science and Technology, MSc Language Science and Technology at Universität des Saarlandes
English, Hungarian, Serbian, German
Github Skills (2)
rule5
rule-based4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
versi-regular/rule-based_syllabifier_sr
Aug 2018 - Nov 2021
A rule-based (mixed-principle) syllabifier for Serbian.
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 years 3 months
rule-basedprincipleserbianrule
versi-regular/petnica_compLing
Oct 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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