Applied AI — and where it actually pays
Finding the places in your business where AI returns more than it costs, and saying so plainly when it doesn't. Pilots designed to answer a question, not to demo well.
Independent technology consultant · Serbia & Spain
Most technology fails in the meeting, not in production.
Independent consulting on cloud, machine learning and applied AI. The solution gets designed, then explained to the people who have to sign for it — in plain language, with the economics worked out.
The work
Two languages, one decision
Engineering describes a system. The business decides on an outcome. Most projects stall in the gap between those two sentences — and that gap is where I work. Every proposal exists in both columns at once.
Managed Kubernetes, autoscaled across availability zones
A traffic spike stops costing you a night of downtime — and you stop paying for idle capacity the rest of the year
Speech-to-text and synthesis pipeline, tuned on your own domain vocabulary
Every customer call becomes searchable text, and your agents stop writing summaries by hand
Retrieval layer over your internal document base
New hires find the answer themselves instead of interrupting the one person who knows it
Phased migration from on-premise to hybrid, over two quarters
Capital expense becomes a monthly line you can forecast, defend, and cut
Services
Four things I get called for
Speech technology
Transcription and speech synthesis put to work: call analytics, voice interfaces, accessibility, media production. Model selection, tuning, and the pipeline around it.
Cloud, Kubernetes, Linux
Architecture and migration for infrastructure that simply has to keep running. An honest assessment of what you have, a plan for what you need, real numbers for both.
Selling complex technology
Pre-sales and solution design for vendors and integrators: positioning, the technical narrative, and a business case that survives the CFO's second question.
Stack
What the advice is built on
Seventeen years inside global technology companies — enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms and machine learning, on the side that has to deliver what was sold. Long enough to know which promises hold after the contract is signed.
Infrastructure
- Public cloud platforms
- Kubernetes & containers
- Linux
- Networking
- Capacity & cost planning
Machine learning
- Speech-to-text
- Speech synthesis
- Speaker diarization
- Fine-tuning on domain data
- Evaluation & benchmarking
Applied AI
- Use-case discovery
- Retrieval over private data
- Agents & automation
- Build-versus-buy analysis
- Unit economics
Engineering
- Python
- Mobile applications
- APIs & integrations
- Data pipelines
- Proofs of concept
How an engagement runs
Three steps, in this order
Step 01 — Assess
Find out what is really there
A week or two: what you run, what it costs, where it hurts, and what the team already knows but hasn't been asked.
Step 02 — Plan
Decide what is worth doing
Architecture and a costed roadmap that separates what to do now, what to defer, and what to drop entirely.
Step 03 — Execute
Stay until it works
Hands-on, alongside your team, or reviewing a vendor's work from your side of the table. Whichever the situation calls for.
Radar
What I'm reading this week
Updated automatically · 05 Aug 2026
Infrastructure, applied AI and the security news that actually changes what you should do on Monday. Headlines link straight to the source.
HyperAgent: Planning and Acting over Tool-Schema Hypergraphs for Tool-Use LLM Agents
Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on external tools to complete complex real-world tasks. However, reliable tool-use planning remains challenging due to the limitations of…
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We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face
10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.
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IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now
A critical Langflow flaw allowing RCE on default deployments is being exploited, says the CISA
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Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn
Anthropic said to be the client wanting to secure rent-a-GPU company's compute resources
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Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.
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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
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A curated digest, not a mirror: headline, source and a one-line summary, with the link going to the publisher.
Contact
Tell me what's not working
A first conversation costs nothing and usually takes half an hour. If I'm not the right person for it, I will say so and point you at someone who is.
- info@2cloud.me
- Phone
- +381 62 9326 061
- Belgrade
- Bulevar Milutina Milankovića 9ž, Belgrade 11070, Serbia
- Barcelona
- Pl. d'Europa 50-52, 08902 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Working in
- English · Srpski · Español