Toni Kukurin
Deep Learning Engineer at QuantCo
Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolToni Kukurin is a Deep Learning Engineer with a decade of experience applying NLP and ML research to production systems, currently building DL models and infrastructure at QuantCo. He combines academic rigor (MS in Computer Science focused on NLP) with hands-on engineering across companies including Bloomberg, Google and Microsoft, where he shipped distributed training pipelines, KubeFlow model serving, and data-efficient domain adaptation solutions. Toni has a track record of turning research ideas into robust production features—examples include confidence scoring for open-domain QA, synthetic data generation and accessibility algorithms at Google, and weak-labeling approaches that outperformed production models. He regularly bridges applied research and MLOps, automating data versioning, refactoring legacy code, and improving serving latency through algorithmic and heuristic optimizations. Based in Croatia, he also has broad backend experience from internships and freelance work, and an appetite for practical, cost-saving data strategies demonstrated to reduce labeling needs by up to 80%.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Faculty of electrical engineering and computing, University of ZagrebCertificate, iOS programming, Certificate, iOS programming at Infinum Academy
Croatian, Italian, German, English
Github Skills (147)
python10
speech10
nlp10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
keyboard-shortcuts9
multiclass-classification9
experiment9
transformer9
computer-vision9
transformers9
datasets9
language-model9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tkukurin/tk.lms
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:153 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
tkukurin/Proj.TamperScripts
Feb 2020 - Apr 2022
Some tiny Chrome extensions. Adjust video speed, copy current timestamp and recent captions, YouTube shortcuts, Vim navigation, etc.
Contributions:109 commits, 6 PRs, 94 pushes in 2 years 2 months
vimchrome-extensionsevernoteyoutubeyoutube-captions
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