Mateja Bruncic
Senior Director Of Engineering And Product Ops at Databox
Ptuj, Slovenia
Summary
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Top SchoolMateja Bruncic is a pragmatic senior engineering and product operations leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling cross-functional teams and systems, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering and Product Ops at Databox. She blends academic rigor—holding a PhD in text mining and sentiment analysis—with hands-on product and backend leadership, having grown engineering teams past twenty and run company operations. Known for a MacGyver mindset, she excels at simplifying complexity, connecting people, and rescuing projects when coordination breaks down. Mateja actively experiments with AI to streamline coding, planning, and processes, and centers mentorship, hiring, and radical candor in her leadership. An advocate for women in tech, she treats incremental improvements as compounding gains and prefers honest, high-accountability teams where real growth happens.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, text mining, sentiment analysis, PhD, text mining, sentiment analysis at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of MariborInternational Baccalaureate (IB), International Baccalaureate (IB) at II. gimnazija Maribor
Slovenian, English, German, Croatian
Github Skills (31)
crossword10
openrefine10
python10
data-science10
data-manipulation10
underscore10
wikimedia10
reconciliation10
java10
data-wrangling10
journalism10
wikidata10
data-analysis10
odk9
mhealth9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sparkica/LODGrefine
Mar 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:20 commits in 10 months
codeweeksi/codeweek.si
Jul 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:6 PRs, 295 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 3 months
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