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With over 20 years of experience, Davor is a Head of Technology and Product for AI/ML and CTO for Autonomous Vehicles (AV), having held key positions at Amazon Web Services (AWS), HPE/DXC, and CSC. He has robust engineering and product management skills, leading large cross-functional teams. Davor's career highlights include being the Head of Technology and Product at AWS, where he founded and directed the development of a generative AI-powered reasoning and querying service. He also led the accelerated engineering teams at Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth, achieving 3x acceleration in AI/ML auto-labeling, evaluation, validation, and data onboarding. As the CTO for AV, Davor focused on developing customer-centric autonomy service products and building an end-to-end AV platform. He earned a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany, and holds AI/ML patents. Davor is seeking advanced opportunities to use his experience in AI/ML, AV, and Data to drive innovation in the industry. Davor combines two worlds: the creative, passionate Croatian and the conscientious, accurate German. Harmonizing these two nationalities can be challenging, but it makes him an invaluable asset.

Job History

2023-06Present

Head of Technology and Product for AI/ML - Querying, Reasoning, and Multimodality

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The service for Generative AI reasoning, querying, and dataset curation simplifies the process and lowers costs for search and curating valuable training and validation datasets and RAGs on hundreds of PB of data. 

Focus areas in this role:

  • Davor leads cross-functional teams and owns the definition, design, architecture quality, and implementation of our service product. He has leads the design and architecture quality of pre-processing, extraction, indexing, querying, and science service products and guided the four engineering teams over two organizations. 
  • He is tackling the most complex technology challenges, providing direction, and creating sustainable mechanisms for continuous improvement. He ensures the teams build a coherent technical vision and deliver systems that work well together. 
  • Davor, as the founding Head of Product, has owned and directed the product development of AWS Generative AI-powered reasoning, semantic querying, and dataset curation service.
  • He owns the product's vision, roadmap, strategy, and AI/ML technology within our semantic search service. Davor mapped the business goals to AI/M technology investments, resulting in 20x more data volume than predicted.
  • Davor break down the most complex problems into their constituent building blocks. He provides significant innovation, creativity, and judgement when solving challenging problems.
2022-062023-06

Head of Accelerated Engineering in Amazon SageMaker AI/ML Ground Truth

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth (GT) offers the most comprehensive set of automation and human-in-the-loop capabilities. It allows you to harness the power of human feedback across the AI/ML lifecycle to improve the accuracy and relevancy of models. Apply human feedback across the ML lifecycle to create or evaluate high-quality models.

Focus areas in this role:

  • Davor led cross-functional teams and the definition, design, architecture quality, and delivery of most complex and most challenging projects across the science and engineering organizations. He ensures that four teams within our two organizations are aligned to a coherent technical vision and deliver systems that fit well together.
  • Davor defined and shaped the technology vision for his GT service and mapped them to multi-year roadmaps. He guided and developed four teams of 30+ employees with L6, L7 managers and scientists.
  • He set up and led four accelerated engineering teams for Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth by tackling the most complex technology challenges, providing direction, and creating sustainable mechanisms for continuous improvement. He ensures the teams build a coherent technical vision and deliver systems that work well together. 
  • The pre-processing evaluation, validation, and data onboarding teams reduced processing time by 3x.
  • The multimodal auto-labeling team achieved a 2x increase in 2D and 3D auto-labeling by implementing sensor fusion multimodality for autonomous customers.
2021-062022-06

Global Technology Leader for Autonomous Vehicles

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The potential impact of Autonomous Vehicles (AV) on society and industry is significant. 

Focus areas in this role:

  • As the Global Technology Lead (TL) for our Autonomous Vehicles, Davor is responsible for creating and implementing a strategy to accelerate autonomy product growth. Davor drives awareness about the impact and consequences of AV/AI technical decisions on the business.
  • The technology and customer business communities consider him an authority on AV/AI technology challenges. Davor is consulted for making difficult trade-offs, is respected for his AV/AI technical expertise, and is credible with others based on his results.
  • Davor focuses on developing customer-centric solutions and demonstrating end-to-end Autonomy technologies, including data ingestion, AI/ML and computer vision, localization and mapping, simulation, testing, and deployment on the AWS cloud.
  • As a technology leader, Davor shaped the vision and initiatives of AV and ADAS technology. He led the autonomy solutions team, provided technology direction, headed solution architecture, and delivered projects for diverse AV customers and pilots during RFI/RFP processes.
  • He led the design and technology deep-dive sessions and even implemented some key complex components for AV perception AI/ML model training, simulation, and driving function validation at the PB scale.
2016-07Present

Founding Chief Technology Officer

Robots Go Mental (RGM), Founding CTO

Robots Go Mental provides a service for building AI agents that learn quickly and naturally, like humans. 

Focus areas in this role:

  • As CTO, Davor co-founded RGM and owns our company's product vision, AI/ML technology. 
  • Davor's expertise lies in designing and building scalable platforms for AI/ML and building products on those platforms. Davor defined and shaped the vision for our organization and service product and mapped it to multi-year roadmaps.
  • He is passionate about solving the most complex and challenging problems and making things work on the design, implementation, and system levels. Davor leads the definition, design, architecture quality, implementation, and delivery of the most advanced, most difficult, most cross-cutting, and/or most ambiguous challenges across a science and engineering organization. He owns two critical components.
2017-082021-06

Founding Head of Robotic Drive Product/CTO Autonomous Vehicles

DXC Technology (HPE/CSC) / Founding CTO

As a Founder and Head of Robotic Drive Product and CTO, Davor has built Robotic Drive, the Autonomous Driving Development Platform. He owned the Product and Technology for Autonomous Driving and ML by DXC. Over the last 20 years, Davor has worked in software, technology, and products. His expertise is in designing and building scalable platforms for autonomous driving, analytics, machine learning, and AI, as well as building services and products on those platforms. He knows how to build large platform products and bring them to a successful end. 

Focus areas in this role:

  • As chief technology executive, Davor is responsible for the technology vision and product strategy for Autonomous Vehicles (AV), AI/ML, and Analytics. Davor defined and shaped the vision for this organization and technology and mapped it to multi-year roadmaps and investments. He had built an AV platform as a product and operated large-scale distributed systems. 
  • Davor tackles the most complex technology challenges, provides direction, and creates sustainable mechanisms for continuous improvement. He ensures the teams build a coherent technical vision and deliver systems that work well together. As an expert, Davor influences multiple cross-functional teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness. He is accountable for the quality of the systems and/or solutions delivered.
  • Davor relentlessly simplifies and breaks down the most complex problems into their constituent building blocks. He demonstrates significant innovation, creativity, and judgment when solving challenging problems. Davor is a role model for company ownership, and he recognizes problems outside his area and drives resolution.
  • Davor hired and directed eight teams working on AI/AV data and infrastructure for validation, training, inference, and data collection. Davor led the engineering teams, which increased from 5 to 100+ employees, and the solution engineering and delivery teams, which increased from 30+ to over 800 employees. He hired and developed teams of 100+ people with L6 and L7 managers and scientists.

  • Revenue increased from Mil. 2 K€  to over Mil. 300 € YoY in three years.
2016-092017-08

Big Data and Analytics CTO

DXC Technology (HPE/CSC) / CTO BD&A

Focus areas in this role:

  • As CTO, Davor leads, shapes, and operationalizes our Big Data & Analytics and IoT service technology.
  • Built solution assets and capabilities in Big Data & Analytics. The team increased from 8 to 50+ employees.
  • Define enterprise architecture, strategic planning, and technology direction for our B&D solutions.
  • Presales support for our BD&A products & services, generating proposal pipeline >50 Mil. €.
  • Advise different projects with team sizes of 100+ employees worldwide.
  • He tackles the most complex technology challenges, provides direction, and creates sustainable mechanisms for continuous improvement. Davor ensures the teams build a coherent technical vision and deliver systems that work well together.
  • As an exert, Davor influences multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness. He is accountable for the quality of the systems and/or solutions delivered. 
2015-112016-09

Advisor Big Data & Analytics Solution Architect

Computer Science Corporation (CSC), BD&A Service

Focus areas in this role:

  • Lead, shape, and operationalize our Big Data & Analytics/IoT offerings.
  • Establish delivery capabilities and technical leadership in Big Data & Analytics/IoT.
  • Define enterprise architecture, strategic planning, and technology direction in our Industry 4.0 offering & solutions.
  • Advise and work on different projects as Chief Solution Architect with team sizes 50+ employees worldwide. As exert Davor influence multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness. He is accountable for the quality of the systems and/or solutions delivered.
  • Presales support the sale of our BD&A products & services.
20112015

Leader Technology Advisory Solution Architect

Computer Science Corporation (CSC), Technology Consulting

Focus areas in this role:

  • Build our Solution Advisory service offering driven by state-of-the-art technology, creating technology consulting assets.
  • Establish the solution capabilities and technical leadership in Technology Consulting. The solution team increased from 5 to 20 employees.
  • Presales support in technology consulting.
  • Advise and work on different projects as a Solution Architect with team sizes >100 employees worldwide.
20052011

Leader System Architect - Portal Technology

Computer Science Corporation (CSC)

Focus areas in this role:

  • Worked on different projects as an Information System Architect.
  • Worked on different projects as a Senior Software Engineer.
  • Worked on different projects in the Financial & Insurance Sector.
20032005

Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE) - eTechnology

Computer Science Corporation (CSC)

Focus areas in this role:

  • Worked on different projects as a Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE).
19982002

Junior / Professional, Software Development Engineer (SDE)

Banque PSA Finance

Focus areas in this role:

  • Worked on different projects as a Junior and later as Professional Software Development Engineer.

Education

Master of Computer Science

University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany