Senior AI Product Engineer

Turning AI capabilities into production-ready products for real business workflows.

Senior AI Product Engineer with a background across product engineering, backend systems, and applied AI. I build end-to-end products around LLM workflows, retrieval pipelines, agent orchestration, and model-backed APIs. My strongest work is turning AI capabilities into reliable, production-ready products that integrate cleanly with real operating workflows.

Belgrade, SerbiaLLMs, RAG, AI AgentsProduction-ready AI systems

Focused on AI systems that combine technical rigor, delivery quality, and product utility.

8+ yearsExperience across applied AI, machine learning, and product engineering.
30+Projects completed across AI systems, SaaS platforms, and fullstack product delivery.
30-40%Manual effort reduced through production AI workflow automation.
99.9%Service availability achieved on deployed containerized AI systems.

Profile

The common thread is building reliable systems and turning AI capabilities into practical, production-ready products.

Applied AI with engineering depth

The foundation is broad software engineering, but the differentiation today comes from designing AI systems that can survive real operational constraints.

Full lifecycle ownership

The work spans architecture, data and inference pipelines, orchestration layers, APIs, frontend delivery, evaluation, and deployment.

Business-grade execution

The emphasis is consistently on reliability, measurable impact, and systems that create business value beyond prototype-stage experimentation.

Experience

Experience is presented through system design decisions, business impact, and technical execution.

Senior AI Product Engineer

Netguru

Remote01/2024 - Present

Digital product consultancy delivering software engineering, design, and AI solutions for startups and enterprises.

  • Architected and delivered LLM-powered workflow systems that transformed unstructured inputs into structured, actionable outputs, reducing manual processing effort by 30-40% across high-volume operational flows.
  • Built Python-based RAG pipelines integrating curated knowledge sources, retrieval, and prompt-grounding logic, improving factual accuracy and reducing unsupported or hallucinated responses by 30%.
  • Developed agent-style orchestration workflows for multistep reasoning, task routing, and exception handling, increasing successful end-to-end workflow completion rates by 25% without human intervention.
  • Designed and exposed model-backed APIs enabling real-time AI capabilities across internal and customer-facing products, achieving sub-300ms median latency and supporting high-throughput usage scenarios.
  • Implemented full-stack AI product features using React and TypeScript, including workflow dashboards and review interfaces, reducing manual review time by 25% and improving user adoption across internal teams.
  • Integrated frontend, backend, and AI inference layers into cohesive production systems, enabling seamless AI-driven user experiences and reducing system friction across workflows.
  • Introduced evaluation pipelines for retrieval quality, grounding accuracy, and response reliability, reducing model iteration and validation cycles by 30-35%.
  • Deployed and scaled containerized AI services on AWS (ECS, S3, CI/CD pipelines), improving platform availability to 99.9% and reducing deployment time by 40-50%.

AI Engineer

Rossum

Remote07/2022 - 12/2023

Cloud-native AI document automation company building end-to-end workflow automation for transactional business processes.

  • Built Python services for AI-driven document and transaction workflows, reducing manual processing time by 45% across high-volume business operations.
  • Developed AI agent-style orchestration logic to coordinate document ingestion, validation, and exception handling workflows, enabling adaptive decision-making across automated processing pipelines.
  • Applied PyTorch and scikit-learn to improve document classification, field extraction, anomaly detection, and exception routing within automated workflow pipelines.
  • Designed and implemented workflow orchestration logic for validation, approval, and post-processing flows, improving end-to-end workflow completion speed by 30% and reducing manual intervention in document processing.
  • Delivered model-backed capabilities through REST APIs and internal service endpoints, allowing workflow engines and external systems to consume predictions in near real time.
  • Deployed production-grade ML inference services using Docker and AWS (ECS, S3), enabling scalable model serving and reducing deployment time by 50% through automated CI/CD workflows.
  • Designed workflow automation using n8n to orchestrate AI-powered document processing pipelines, integrating model outputs with downstream systems through APIs and webhooks.

Machine Learning Engineer

DeepL

Remote03/2021 - 06/2022

Language AI company building machine-learning-powered translation, writing, and communication products.

  • Engineered Python-based NLP pipelines for language processing tasks, improving the quality and consistency of text understanding workflows used in production translation services.
  • Trained and fine-tuned neural models with PyTorch and TensorFlow for machine translation quality estimation, language detection, and text classification, improving offline model performance by 15%.
  • Applied scikit-learn to prototype baseline models, feature extraction workflows, and offline evaluation utilities that accelerated experimentation across NLP projects.
  • Orchestrated data preparation and feature generation jobs for large multilingual corpora, increasing dataset reliability and reducing preprocessing failures by 25%.
  • Operationalized inference services with containerized deployment workflows, helping move ML functionality from experimentation into stable internal and customer-facing systems.
  • Refined model evaluation and error analysis processes for multilingual outputs, raising confidence in production releases and shortening iteration cycles for new model versions.

Software Engineer

SAP

Belgrade, Serbia01/2020 - 12/2020

Global enterprise software company building data, analytics, and intelligent business platforms.

  • Developed a full-stack enterprise application using React, TypeScript, and Node.js, delivering scalable features for data-driven business workflows.
  • Built reusable UI components and dashboards to support analytics and intelligent automation scenarios, improving usability and feature delivery speed.
  • Implemented backend services and RESTful APIs to process and expose structured business data across distributed systems.
  • Integrated frontend applications with backend and data services to enable near real-time data visualization and operational insights.
  • Contributed to features aligned with automation and machine learning-assisted workflows, enhancing system capabilities for intelligent decision support.
  • Applied TypeScript, OOP principles, and modular architecture to improve code maintainability and scalability across shared components.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams in an agile environment to deliver end-to-end functionality across UI, API, and data layers.
  • Enhanced application performance by optimizing API response handling and frontend rendering efficiency, reducing page load times by 23%.

Software Engineer I

Nordeus

Belgrade, Serbia08/2018 - 12/2019

A leading game development company building large-scale, real-time mobile gaming platforms.

  • Developed gameplay systems and backend services using Java (Spring Boot) with strong object-oriented programming principles, improving modularity and maintainability of game logic.
  • Designed and implemented scalable services for player data, game events, and session management, supporting high-concurrency gameplay environments.
  • Built internal tools and dashboards using JavaScript (React) for game configuration, monitoring, and analytics, reducing manual setup and configuration effort by 30% and improving visibility into live game operations.
  • Modeled game mechanics and event systems using OOP design patterns, enabling flexible feature extensions and shortening new feature rollout cycles by 20%.
  • Integrated RESTful APIs and messaging systems to support real-time game interactions and event-driven architecture, improving system responsiveness and ensuring stable handling of high-concurrency player activity.
  • Optimized performance of backend services by improving data access patterns and reducing response latency.
  • Investigated and resolved production issues, delivering timely hotfixes that reduced recurring live-service incidents by 30% and improved system stability during peak usage periods.

Projects

Selected projects across AI products, hospitality software, commerce workflows, and payment systems.

Minonexus product interface showing AI-driven architectural planning and 3D design workflow.
AI Planning Product

Minonexus

An AI-assisted architecture planning product that helps future homeowners generate early architectural concepts with floor plans and 3D models in minutes, while combining chat-driven requirements capture with geodata-informed feasibility support for planning decisions.

AI assistantLLM workflowgeospatial analysis3D model generation
AI DiagMe interface showing AI-based medical report interpretation and healthcare product messaging.
Healthcare AI Product

AI DiagMe

A medical AI platform that interprets blood, urine, and stool test results into structured, easy-to-read reports, combining machine-learning-based analysis, personalized guidance, and privacy-conscious handling of sensitive health data.

medical AImachine learningreport generationsecure data handling
TMC AI website showing AI agents for sales, marketing, support, and finance teams.
Agentic Automation Platform

TMC AI

An AI agent platform focused on sales, marketing, support, and finance workflows, using purpose-built automation agents for prospect research, enrichment, outreach, reporting, and other manual operational work that teams need to scale reliably.

AI agentsworkflow automationsales intelligenceoperational analytics
Plateform dashboard showing restaurant reservation management and hospitality workflow features.
Hospitality SaaS

Plateform

A restaurant operations platform built around online table reservations, no-show reduction, service coordination, and customer retention, combining booking flows with automation and marketing tools for hospitality teams.

reservation systemrestaurant SaaSmarketing automationoperations workflows
Konkral website showing microcement product presentation, planning tools, and commerce journeys.
Commerce Platform

Konkral

A commerce and customer-planning platform for a Nordic microcement brand, bringing together product discovery, color and material exploration, project calculators, reseller journeys, and consultation flows for renovation and construction use cases.

e-commerceproject planningB2B/B2C journeysquote workflows
Fluid Fintec product site showing payment optimization messaging and fintech platform interface.
Payments Platform

Fluid Fintec

A fintech platform focused on intelligent payment routing and payment-provider selection, designed to help institutions and online businesses optimize cost, speed, reliability, and omni-channel payment experiences through a single integration layer.

payment routingAPI integrationfintech platformomnichannel payments

Skills

Skills organized clearly and consistently with the resume for easier review.

AI Engineering & Machine Learning

PythonPyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnNumPyLLMsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Generative AIAI AgentsNLPLangChainOpenCVPrompt EngineeringModel EvaluationFine-TuningLangGraph

Backend, APIs & Data Systems

Node.jsExpress.jsJavaSpring BootDjangoFastAPIFlaskREST APIsMicroservicesModel ServingData PipelinesETLWorkflow Automation (n8n, Zapier)WebhooksPostgreSQLMongoDBPineconeWeaviateFAISSBullMQCelery

Frontend & Product Engineering

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptJavaScriptHTML5CSS3Tailwind CSSREST API IntegrationSSR/CSR

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (ECS, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda)GCPDockerGitHub ActionsVercelRedisAPI GatewaySQS

Resume

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Resume SnapshotAvailable for product-focused AI work

Milorad Trifunovic

Senior AI Product Engineer LLMs, RAG, AI Agents

Current roleSenior AI Product Engineer at Netguru
Core focusLLMs, RAG, AI agents, orchestration, and AI product delivery
Delivery rangeFrom model-backed services to user-facing interfaces
IndustriesConsulting, document AI, language AI, enterprise software, gaming
NetguruRossumDeepLSAPNordeus

What the resume signals

A profile that combines software engineering fundamentals with applied AI execution, which makes it especially strong for teams shipping production AI products rather than isolated experiments.

Where the strongest fit is

Senior roles involving AI-enabled workflows, internal platforms, agentic systems, retrieval pipelines, evaluation, and product-minded implementation across the stack.

Education & Contact

Education and contact information presented clearly for easy review and follow-up.

B.Sc. in Computer Science

University of Belgrade

10/2014 - 08/2018

If you're building AI-heavy products, modern internal tooling, or workflow systems where quality matters, this is the fastest way to get in touch.

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