Tvrtko Sternak
Senior AI Engineer at Synthpop - Healthcare AI
Zagreb, Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolTvrtko Sternak is a Senior AI Engineer based in Zagreb with three years of professional experience building backend and distributed systems for startups and enterprises. He combines a solid academic foundation from FER with hands-on work migrating and optimizing async event-driven frameworks—most notably contributing to FastStream and moving Kafka integrations from confluent-kafka to aiokafka. Tvrtko has held roles across healthcare AI and platform engineering, shipping production-ready services and DevOps improvements that streamline testing and deployment. As a maintainer of AG2 projects, he blends pragmatic engineering with open-source stewardship, favoring lightweight, async-first Python architectures that scale.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at FER
Github Skills (14)
kafka10
python10
asyncio10
testing10
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
distributed-systems8
nat7
redis7
natsio7
rabbitmq7
protobuffer5
protobuf5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ag2ai/faststream
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
FastStream is a powerful and easy-to-use Python framework for building asynchronous services interacting with event streams such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS and Redis.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 61 reviews, 42 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Tvrtko primarily contributed to the FastStream framework by implementing initial setup and configuration changes, including dependency downgrades, and the addition of backports. They also made updates to testing configurations (e.g. test.yaml and settings.ini). Furthermore, the user's commits show involvement in refactoring the project to migrate from confluent kafka to aiokafka, indicating experience in adapting the framework to incorporate asynchronous Kafka operations.
pythonasynciohandlersfastapikafka
airtai/tpk
Nov 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:24 reviews, 24 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 month
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