Luka Abramović
Forward deployed AI engineer · Founder, Adamant Code
Open to forward deployed and AI solutions roles from
- Available
- Based in
- Rijeka, Croatia · CET
- Works with
- US, UK and EU teams
- Languages
- Croatian (native), English (fluent)
- Work setup
- Fully remote · available 09:00 – 20:00 CET, US overlap until 14:00 Eastern
Roles I'm a fit for
Open to forward deployed and AI solutions roles from .
- Forward deployed engineer
- AI solutions engineer
- Sales engineer (AI)
- AI deployment engineer
Why now. After three years running a small AI studio, 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.
Summary
I do the forward-deployed job end to end. I find the customer, run discovery, scope and sell the work, then build the AI inside their workflow and stay through launch. Selling what I build keeps me honest about what is realistic to promise. Building what I sell means I know how to prove it.
Since 2023 I have led every Adamant Code engagement this way, for clients in the US, UK and EU. That includes AI search that shows engineers the exact page and paragraph behind every answer, a voice agent taking real calls in Danish, an AI coach built on 25 years of coaching methodology and a two-year internal platform a team of 44 runs its operations on.
Before that I was a full-stack TypeScript engineer, and before that a marine engineer on container ships and LNG carriers, where I taught myself to code off watch on about 10 MB of internet a day.
600+
sales and discovery calls run personally
September 2023 to October 2026
~$600K
in AI and software build contracts won
Across 13+ builds, September 2023 to October 2026
37/37
five-star Upwork reviews
October 2023 to October 2026; Expert-Vetted (top 1%)
2 yrs
internal AI platform partnership after a first build
Anonymous repeat client
Experience
Engine room to AI engineering.
Founder & AI Engineer · Adamant Code d.o.o.
– nowRijeka, Croatia
- Run sales and discovery myself: 600+ calls with founders, operators and enterprise teams in the US, UK and EU.
- Led 13+ AI and software builds from the first call to launch: scope and proposal, solution design, the build with the Adamant Code team, launch and iteration.
- Hired and lead a distributed delivery team: 100+ candidate interviews, sprint planning and reviews, weekly client update meetings.
- Built the company's own systems: an MCP server with 58 tools, an inbound engine with 96 articles and an outbound engine feeding an 850+ company CRM.
Software Engineer · Kantun Devs
– Rijeka, Croatia · overlaps Adamant Code's first nine months
- Helped build the online ordering system for Dickey's Barbecue Pit, used by 300,000+ people a month.
- Developed full-stack features with TypeScript, Express, GraphQL, MySQL, React, Next.js and AWS.
- Delivered REST API microservices on AWS Lambda and maintained production applications with third-party integrations.
- Practised test-driven development with Jest and reviewed pull requests.
Junior Software Developer · Metal Shark Boats Croatia
– Kastav, Croatia
- Built and maintained tools across the company's ERP ecosystem.
- Wrote Microsoft Office add-ins, MSSQL stored procedures and reporting queries.
- Worked in C#, SSRS, PowerShell, WPF and Razor Pages.
Marine engineer, container ships and LNG carriers
– At sea
- Ended as 3rd Engineer with MOL LNG Transport (Europe) Ltd.
- Safety-critical machinery operation and maintenance in multinational crews.
- Taught myself to program off watch on about 10 MB of internet a day.
Selected projects
First call to launch, five times over.
Document search engineers can verify
Case study: Document search engineers can verify →~83% less time spent searching documents
Client estimate from engineer interviews, not usage logs: about 60 minutes down to 10 per engineer per working day.
A Danish voice agent on live phone lines
Summary: A Danish voice agent on live phone lines →~500 ms latency on live calls
Early production: 975 calls and 56 bookings, roughly 6% lead to booking.
Coaching expertise, built into an AI coach
On the Work page: Coaching expertise, built into an AI coach →95% of onboarded regular users completed a session
TNM's system-wide analytics snapshot, 27 August 2026. Not lifetime reach, because inactive users may be deleted under TNM's GDPR retention.
From rough wireframes to a full marketplace
On the Work page: From rough wireframes to a full marketplace →50+ screens and 15+ workflows in about 3 months
Delivery scope, not adoption or revenue.
An internal operations platform, two years on
On the Work page: An internal operations platform, two years on →44 internal users · 400+ connected properties
Scale the platform supports, not measured savings.
Skills
Customer-facing
- Discovery and qualification
- Mapping workflows and decision makers
- Technical scoping
- Proposals and SOWs
- Prototypes and live demos
- Workshops
- Stakeholder and account management
Applied AI
- Retrieval with source citations (RAG)
- Voice agents (OpenAI Realtime, Twilio, speech-to-text and text-to-speech)
- Text-to-SQL
- AI copilots
- Agents and MCP servers
- Guardrails and human handover
- AI triage and grounded support answers
- Natural-language analytics
Engineering
- TypeScript
- Python
- C#
- React
- Next.js
- NestJS
- Express
- FastAPI
- GraphQL
- REST
Data & cloud
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MSSQL
- MongoDB
- Redshift
- AWS (including Lambda)
- Azure
- Docker
- Railway
Recognition
- Upwork Expert-Vetted (top 1%) and Top Rated Plus
- Fiverr Vetted Pro
- Verified client reviews on Clutch
- Guest, TNM Unplugged podcast ↗
- 5 LinkedIn recommendations from founders and CEOs
Recommendations
"I have to highlight the smooth and structured delivery process he has in place. Luka runs a tight ship and you can tell from the first moment you get in contact with him and his team. Recommended if you're looking for a dependable dev partner!"
"The level of detail that he and his team go into and the amount of care and attention put into every single step of the process is impressive! His communication is top-notch and you can always count on being in loop with the state of a project."
Education and certificates
- Bachelor in Marine Engineering · Faculty of Maritime Studies, Rijeka –
- Divide and Conquer, Sorting and Searching, and Randomized AlgorithmsStanford University Online
- Graph Search, Shortest Path, and Data StructuresStanford University Online
Work with me
Bring me the hard problem.
Based in Rijeka, Croatia, working with teams in the US, UK and EU. Email me what's stuck and I'll tell you what it would take to fix it, including when the answer isn't AI.
I'm open to forward deployed and AI solutions roles from December 2026. Read my CV ↓