Vedran Stipetić-Machine Learning Engineer
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Experience
Founder
MaineFrame Labs
- ML lead, owning architecture, development, and deployment end-to-end.
- Developed end-to-end ML pipeline for water quality monitoring from multispectral satellite imagery, from data ingestion to deployed inference.
- Built naval vessel detection and classification system on multispectral satellite data, enabling automated maritime surveillance.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Tripadvisor
- Engineered and deployed a photo ranking service that selects primary images from a corpus of 300M+ images, optimizing for clickthrough rate across hotels, restaurants, and attractions.
- Developed an image quality pipeline including rotation correction and near-duplicate detection to ensure visual diversity across listings.
- Built image-text matching models for visual search and contributed to multimodal AI systems for image tagging.
R&D Engineer
Visage Technologies
- Built real-time vehicle detection and tracking models optimized for edge deployment.
- Implemented Active Learning pipeline using Monte Carlo dropout and normalizing flow density estimation, improving data selection efficiency and model uncertainty quantification.
- Led company-wide ML competence group, establishing training curriculum for 20+ engineers.
Researcher / Teaching Assistant
University of Zagreb
- Created state-of-the-art methods for single image dehazing and single image rain removal based on mathematical modeling and unsupervised learning.
- Focused on adapting non-smooth metrics for image degradation to be usable in deep learning, with special attention on reference-free metrics and adapting them for unsupervised learning.
- Authored one journal paper and four conference papers on various topics in the field of image restoration.
- Cooperated with an international team of researchers on a paper about high dynamic range image visualization.
- Taught Mathematical Analysis 1 and 2 at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.
- Taught Mathematics at Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Education, Tourism, Aerospace and Defense, and Space Exploration.
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Experienced in Research and Development, Product Development, and Information Technology.
Summary
Independent Machine Learning Consultant (Maine- Frame Labs).
I build custom, large-scale production ML systems spanning multimodal AI, data-centric pipelines, and edge-deployed perception.
Experience includes building visual search and image quality systems at 300M+ image scale (Tripad- visor), alongside published research in image restoration.
Skills
- Languages: Python, C, C++, Matlab
- Technologies: Pytorch, Tensorflow, Pandas, Git, Aws
- Ai/Ml: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Multi- Modal Ai, Llms, Generative Ai
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Education
University of Zagreb
PhD in Computer Vision · Computer Vision · Zagreb, Croatia
Technical University of Denmark
MSc in Mathematical Modeling and Computation · Mathematical Modeling and Computation · Lyngby, Denmark
University of Zagreb
Bachelor of Mathematics · Mathematics · Zagreb, Croatia
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Vedran is based in Zagreb, Croatia and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.
Vedran speaks the following languages: Croatian (Native), English (Advanced).
Vedran has at least 7 years of experience. During this time, Vedran has worked in at least 4 different roles and for 4 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 10 months. Note that Vedran may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Vedran would be well-suited for roles such as: Founder, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, R&D Engineer.
Vedran's most recent position is Founder at MaineFrame Labs.
In recent years, Vedran has worked for MaineFrame Labs, Tripadvisor, Visage Technologies, and University of Zagreb.
Vedran is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Education, and Tourism. Vedran also has some experience in Aerospace and Defense and Space Exploration.
Vedran is most experienced in business areas like Research and Development, Product Development, and Information Technology.
Vedran has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Education, and Tourism.
Vedran has recently worked in business areas like Research and Development, Product Development, and Information Technology.
Vedran holds a Doctorate in Computer Vision from University of Zagreb, a Master in Mathematical Modeling and Computation from Technical University of Denmark and a Bachelor in Mathematics from University of Zagreb.
Vedran is immediately available part-time for suitable projects.
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