Hi, I’m Niko 👋

I’m an experienced AI tinkerer, growth expert, and strategist. I help engineering teams translate deep tech into real market impact.

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Now, Now, Now

• 🎓 New academic year, 2 new courses to teach: Intro to SWE and Scientific Programming.
• 💼 Helping several small teams convert to AI native mindset.
• 🇪🇺 Serving as an expert for European Comission on AI and digital topics.

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🛠️ What I’ve Been Building & Growing (-3 years)

• 🚀 Former Head of Growth at Daytona — led PLG and GTM efforts.
• 🏆 Orchestrated 3 Product Hunt launches (two 2nd-place, one 1st-place).
• 🌟 Grew Daytona's GitHub presence to ~20K stars and boosted domain rating from 0 → 49.

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🧠 What I’m Researching & Teaching

• 🤖 Deeply engaged in AI-native systems, multi-agent orchestration, and LLM-powered graph databases.
• 🎓 PhD researcher exploring the intersection of AI and memory.
• 🕸️ Lecturer in NoSQL and complex network analysis at the Faculty of Science, University of Split.

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💬 Let’s Connect

• 🐦 X / Twitter
• 💼 LinkedIn
• 💻 GitHub
• 📝 Blog
• 📧 Wave Me

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⚡ Fun Fact

I see rabbit holes everywhere. 🐇