Jože Rožanec is a researcher and seasoned machine learning engineer with 13 years of experience spanning industry and academic labs, currently based in the Netherlands and holding a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He has led ML efforts for defect detection, explainable AI, active learning and probabilistic calibration in EU research projects while also shipping production ML at scale for companies like MercadoLibre and Qlector. His work bridges research and engineering: speeding model training 15x for fraud detection, inventing methods for lumpy demand forecasting, and building developer tooling and CI/CD to mirror production environments. An active open-source back-end contributor, he maintained and extended widely used projects such as cron-utils and Cobertura, improving parsing, DSLs and project maintainability. Notably, he combines rigorous academic publishing (ICLR/ICPE) with practical system refactors and reproducible deployment practices, making him equally comfortable with novel algorithms and reliable production delivery.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at Mednarodna podiplomska šola Jožefa Stefana
Post-graduate Diploma of Teaching in Higher Education. Graduated with honors. Education, Post-graduate Diploma of Teaching in Higher Education. Graduated with honors. Education at Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires
Master in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Master in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery at University of Buenos Aires
Contributions:52 commits, 22 PRs, 31 pushes in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jože initiated a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for Cobertura by starting to write a DSL. They focused on building arguments for Cobertura using the DSL approach. Furthermore, the user added a merge functionality into Cobertura DSL. This involved refactoring tasks and modifying files related to cobertura, merging, and task implementations.
Cron utils for parsing, validations and human readable descriptions as well as date/time interoperability.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:42 releases, 1 review, 1103 commits in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jože appears to have been primarily focused on adding and modifying functionality related to parsing, validating, and describing cron expressions. They implemented several strategies for interpreting cron expressions, including handling ranges, specific values, and special characters such as "L" and "W". Furthermore, the user added Spring support and incorporated the functionality to handle parsing and describe a quartz cron with multiple valid scenarios.
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Jože Rožanec - Researcher at Jozef Stefan Institute