Luka Abramović · AI engineer and product lead

One engineer.
Whole systems.

For three years I've built AI that runs inside real workflows. That includes search that shows engineers the page and paragraph behind every answer, an AI coach built on 25 years of coaching method, the internal platform an agency's team runs its operations on, and more.

I work both sides of it. I run discovery with the customer, then lead the design, the build and the weeks after launch when real users arrive.

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Open to fully remote AI engineering and AI solutions roles, available now

20+
AI and software projects led from the first call to launch
September 2023 to October 2026
600+
sales and discovery calls I ran myself
September 2023 to October 2026
300,000+
people a month use the ordering system I helped build
Dickey's Barbecue Pit, at Kantun Devs
37/37
five-star Upwork reviews
October 2023 to October 2026 · Expert-Vetted, top 1%

Problems I've solved

The hard part is rarely the model.

Four of the 20+ projects I've led since 2023, each from the first call to launch. What decided each one was the work around the model.

01 · Enterprise AI · New York · About 3 months

Document search engineers can verify

~83% less time spent searching

Client estimate from engineer interviews, not usage logs. About 60 minutes down to 10 per engineer per working day.

Problem: Engineers searched bid packages of 5,000–50,000 pages with Ctrl+F and highlighters, and every answer had to be checked against the original.
What I did: Ran it end to end, from discovery with the bid engineers to launch. Every answer cites its page and paragraph, and access follows role, team and project.
Stack: Retrieval with citations · PDF ingestion · Role-based permissions · Azure-aligned deployment

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02 · AI product · TNM Coaching · About 18 months

Coaching expertise, built into an AI coach

95% of onboarded regular users completed a session

TNM's system-wide analytics snapshot, 27 August 2026. The average session lasts 13 minutes. Inactive users may be deleted under TNM's GDPR retention, so this is not lifetime reach.

Problem: Off-the-shelf chatbots couldn't coach the way TNM's coaches do. The hard part was turning 25 years of coaching method into behaviour people trust.
What I did: Led Leelou through two major versions. I learned the method from TNM's coaches, designed the conversation, memory and reporting, and tested with coaches until it met their standard.
Built: Text and voice · Several languages · Memory across sessions · SMS and email accountability · Privacy-aware HR reporting

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03 · Marketplace build · GTS Innovative · About 3 months

From rough wireframes to a full marketplace

50+ screens · 15+ workflows · About 3 months

Delivery scope, not adoption or revenue.

Problem: A non-technical founder had the idea and three user groups. The flows, permissions, product logic and AI output were all still open.
What I did: Turned the wireframes into roles, journeys and a release plan, led design and engineering, and cut the mobile app, escrow, ads and recommendations, which would have delayed the first release.
Built: Three-sided marketplace · Six-step AI workflow · NDA-based permissions · Admin tools

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Concept illustration of many data sources feeding one shared internal platform

Concept illustration · anonymous client

04 · Internal AI platform · Anonymous agency · 2 years

An internal operations platform, two years on

44 internal users · 400+ connected properties

The scale the platform supports, about 220k rows a day on average, not measured time savings or revenue.

Started as: A first build for an agency, which grew into a two-year partnership.
What I did: Ran it end to end, from the first call through discovery, scope and solution design to leading the build with the Adamant Code team and launch. Then I stayed on for the partnership.
Outcome: Two years on, it's the platform the agency's team runs its operations on.

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What I bring to a team

In the code
and in the room.

Product teams and customer-facing teams both need engineers who understand the problem before they build. I've run that conversation and built what it called for, on every project, for three years.

Production AI

I build retrieval that cites its page and paragraph, realtime voice agents, text-to-SQL, AI copilots, agents and MCP servers. I design them for what real users bring, like permissions, latency, retries and the handover to a person.

Product engineering

TypeScript and Python, with React, Next.js, NestJS and FastAPI on PostgreSQL, AWS and Azure. I also build inside products other teams already run, like an AI copilot in a B2B SaaS and a realtime voice assistant in an existing family-organiser app.

Discovery with customers

Since 2023 I've run 600+ sales and discovery calls myself. I map the workflow and who decides, find the part that actually hurts, and turn a loose idea into a scope people can approve.

Leading delivery

Working software and a client review every week, on every project since 2023. I hired and led a distributed delivery team, 12 people at its largest across all projects, after 100+ candidate interviews.

Roles I'm open to, starting now

AI engineer
AI solutions engineer
Forward deployed engineer
Sales engineer (AI)

Fully remote from Rijeka, Croatia · US overlap until 14:00 Eastern

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Luka Abramović, portrait — Rijeka, Croatia · 45.33° N, 14.44° E

About

Six years, short version.

I taught myself to code at sea as a marine engineer, and I've written software since 2020. Since founding Adamant Code in 2023 I have also run discovery, scoped the work and led the team on every project. Now I want to spend all my time on the part I'm best at, working with customers and building what fixes their problems, on one product with a strong team.

2023 – nowFounder & AI Engineer · Adamant Code d.o.o.Led 20+ AI and software projects from the first call to launch. I run discovery and scoping myself, and hired and lead a distributed delivery team, 12 people at its largest across all projects.
2021 – 2024Software Engineer · Kantun DevsHelped build the online ordering system for Dickey's Barbecue Pit, used by 300,000+ people a month.
2020 – 2021Junior Software Developer · Metal Shark Boats CroatiaBuilt Office add-ins, SQL reporting and internal C# apps across the company's ERP ecosystem.

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Talks and writing

On the record.

Podcast · TNM Unplugged · January 2026

Building Believable AI Coaches with Luka Abramovic

How Leelou turns TNM's 25 years of coaching method into product behaviour, and where the AI hands the conversation back to a person.

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Panel · Morph · June 2026

From Vibe Coding to Real SaaS

A panel on taking vibe-coded apps to real software. In three short answers I cover the wall people hit when an app is 80% done, why security gets reviewed however few the users, and how to design around an AI chain that takes six minutes.

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Article · Fiverr Community · May 2026What makes a great AI freelancer? The same things that always didThe edge in AI work comes from judgment, workflow design and honest client communication, not from access to better tools.Read the article ↗

In their words

**Zoran Todorovic**
Senior Partner, TNM CoachingWatch the video ↗

**Patrick Besser**
Data & Systems Engineer, TC ElectricWatch the video ↗

Writing

Notes from the work.

All writing

1 October 2025 · 10 min · Story

From 10 MB a day at sea to AI engineer

How I taught myself to code on a container ship with about 10 MB of internet a day, founded Adamant Code in 2023, and what I want to do next.

At dusk, a vast slab of forested land hangs over a sea of cloud that combs beneath it like a wave. A lone hiker stands on a dark ridge, watching.

Open to roles

Put me on the hard problem.

I'm looking for an AI engineering or AI solutions role on one product with a strong team. I can start now and work fully remote from Rijeka, Croatia, with US overlap until 14:00 Eastern.

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