Summary
Veselin Pizurica is a seasoned technology leader and inventor with 13 years of experience building AI, cloud and diagnostic automation platforms, currently serving as Senior Director & Chief Architect of AI/ML Services at Vertiv. As CTO/co-founder and later COO of Waylay, he helped steer an AI-driven orchestration startup from product engineering to executive leadership, and holds 12 patents across AI, cloud computing and troubleshooting. His career blends hands-on R&D and multi-site engineering management at Alcatel‑Lucent with startup leadership, delivering large telecom deployments and measurable operational savings. With a PhD‑level research background in pattern recognition and 15 academic papers, he uniquely combines scientific rigour with productization expertise. Based in Ghent, he’s known for turning complex diagnostics and automation research into scalable, deployable services that bridge lab innovation and field reliability.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Degree in Electrical Engineering Specialization in Electronics and Telecommunications Signal processing, Diploma Degree in Electrical Engineering Specialization in Electronics and Telecommunications Signal processing at Univerzitet u Novom Sadu
Pattern recognition signal and image/video processing, Pattern recognition signal and image/video processing at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
English, Serbian, Dutch, Croatian, Russian