Davor Runje
Vice President Of Agentic Engineering at Synthpop - Healthcare AI
Zagreb, Croatia
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Top SchoolDavor Runje is a seasoned software leader, serial entrepreneur and computer scientist with deep expertise in AI, distributed systems and event-driven architectures. He co-founded and led multiple successful ventures—from PlayMedia’s pioneering MP3/DRM work in the late 1990s to DRAP, an award-winning digital agency acquired by Imago Ogilvy, and most recently airt, an AI platform for event data—before becoming VP of Agentic Engineering at Synthpop. His academic work as a PhD student and Microsoft Research intern contributed to the foundations of structured concurrency that influenced the .NET Task Parallel Library, and he holds a portfolio of publications and patents. An active open-source contributor, he maintains FastStream and has made notable back-end enhancements to the popular AutoGen agentic AI framework, improving function-calling and async compatibility. Based in Zagreb, he combines hands-on engineering, product leadership and mentoring—teaching ML and advising startups—bridging cutting-edge research with pragmatic commercial deployment.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
high school mathematics, high school mathematics at MIOCBachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical Engineering and Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical Engineering and Computing at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u ZagrebuBiloxi High School
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Github Skills (11)
pydantic10
openai10
python10
documentation10
testing10
async9
cli9
asynchronous9
asyncapi8
cicd8
ai8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ag2ai/faststream
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Asynchronous Python framework for event-driven services. A thin client for Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, Redis and MQTT with full access to native broker features, plus AsyncAPI docs, in-memory tests and observability out of the box.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:54 releases, 560 reviews, 98 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Davor primarily focused on implementing changes related to documentation, build process, and testing infrastructure, with heavy involvement in updating the project's core components. The user was also involved in updating the project dependencies and improving the overall structure of the project by removing unecessary dependancies. The changes include the addition of a tutorial.
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microsoft/autogen
Oct 2023 - Aug 2024
A programming framework for agentic AI
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:217 reviews, 56 PRs, 209 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Davor primarily contributed to enhancing the function calling capabilities within the AutoGen framework. They implemented a decorator for function calling, added support for return type hints and JSON encoding, and refactored related asynchronous code. The user also addressed issues and added default values to existing parameters, ensuring compatibility across different OpenAI versions. Additionally, they updated documentation and test cases to reflect the added functionalities and address identified issues.
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