Luka Novak
Senior AI Engineer at Datatonic
Zagreb, Croatia
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Top SchoolLuka Novak is a Senior AI Engineer with 10 years of experience building and shipping end-to-end machine learning systems that drive measurable business outcomes. With an MSc in Computer Science, he has led data science teams at Cantab π and PwC, delivering solutions from agentic RAG pipelines and OCR systems to next-best-action platforms that produced double-digit sales growth. He combines hands-on expertise in Python, XGBoost, TensorFlow, MLflow and cloud platforms with a strategic mindset for product and consulting contexts, often owning the entire ML lifecycle from data validation to deployment. Notable wins include a 30% sales uplift from an XGBoost-driven recommendation platform and an 80% reduction in setup complexity via automated customer journey modules. Luka’s background spans startups to Big Four consulting, giving him a knack for translating ambiguous business problems into robust, auditable models and governance practices. Curious and product-focused, he particularly enjoys projects at the intersection of AI, automation and real-world decision-making.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u ZagrebuHigh school diploma Mathematics, High school diploma Mathematics at XV. gimazija
English
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Github Skills (24)
python9
machine-learning8
economics8
deep-learning7
computer-vision6
mining6
nlp6
clustering6
keras6
spacy6
tensorflow6
classification6
data-science6
data-mining4
pandas3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lukanovak93/DeepLearning
May 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:43 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
lukanovak93/advanced-machine-learning-specialization
Jul 2019 - May 2020
Coursera Advanced Machine Learning Specialization by National Research University Higher School of Economics
Contributions:54 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
nationalpythonspecializationdata-sciencedeep-learning
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