Summary
Marko Benković is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience blending research-grade ML with practical business applications across Croatia and industry. Holding a master's in Computer Science and Mathematics, he has applied deep learning, computer vision and NLP in roles from academic research at the University of Zagreb to product-facing data science at BASF. His work spans the ML lifecycle—modeling, data engineering, deployment and dashboarding—with hands-on expertise in Python, Databricks, Azure, KNIME and Power BI. Notable projects include sales-volume and churn models for ingredient portfolios, multilingual NLP mappings for customer data, and a docs recommendation system built on graph algorithms. Comfortable moving between research and engineering, he has a track record of integrating models into production systems and building tools that bridge technical and business stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb