“He, who believes to be someone, has ceased to become someone.” — Socrates
Born on 9 October 1985 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I have been living in Austria since 1992, growing up in the Mühlviertel region of Upper Austria.
After the Federal Higher Technical Institute (HTL) in Leonding, I studied Hardware/Software Systems Engineering and Embedded Systems Design at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in Hagenberg, earning my MSc in 2010.
My professional career spans RF system engineering, digital design, and six years designing mixed-signal ASICs as a member of the Apple Technology Engineering Austria team in Linz — at the very frontier of consumer silicon.
From May 2017 to October 2025 I served as a Municipal Councilor of the City of Linz.
In January 2026 I stepped away from the desk to become an Explorer by Design — a self-directed study in global systems, human-centric thinking and real-time adaptation.
I am a hardware engineer with technical depth, project responsibility and experience in decision-making bodies, who wants to combine technology, product and leadership.
Worldwide
The best engineers understand the world they build for. After 15+ years in the industry, a self-directed study in global systems, human-centric design, and the ultimate test of adapting to new variables in real-time.
Apple Technology Engineering Austria B.V. & Co. KG · Linz
RTL design and unit-level verification of digital blocks on mixed-signal cellular RF transceiver ASICs, with a focus on IP development and integration. Specified, implemented and integrated the chip-level test and debug infrastructure used by Silicon Validation during bring-up, automated SoC-level power analysis as a weekly script-driven flow, and led the ECO process, resulting in a timely hand-off to physical design, with all fixes integrated.
City of Linz · Linz
Eight years in elected office, serving on committees spanning economy, innovation, climate, security and health. Concurrently held supervisory board mandates at IKT Linz GmbH and Creative Region Linz & Upper Austria GmbH.
DMCE — Danube Mobile Communications Engineering (Intel) · Linz
Responsible for MBIST and memory repair of a cellular RF transceiver, from the RTL structure to the production test patterns for the ATE — the first of its RF transceivers with a working memory repair in production. Supported DFT (scan, JTAG/TAP, ATPG) and implemented real-time signal monitoring for debugging.
DMCE — Danube Mobile Communications Engineering (Intel) · Linz
Customer and internal product documentation, release management and process automation. Replaced SharePoint with Perforce for configuration uploads, built a wiki-to-FrameMaker exporter, rolled out a wiki-based documentation environment across several RF projects, and supervised working students and trainees.
DICE via the Research Institute for Integrated Circuits (RIIC) · Linz
Employed by RIIC, working on site at DICE.
VHDL, SystemVerilog, SystemC; mixed-signal ASIC blocks; AMBA/Wishbone, RISC/ARM; Lint/CDC/RDC; DFT & TnD
UVM, Formal Verification, logical equivalence checking, STA, TCL-driven regression; Synopsys VCS / Verdi, Cadence Xcelium
Synopsys DC / PrimeTime / PrimePower (PTPX) / VCS / Verdi; JasperGold
Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Assembler, MATLAB; Bash, TCL, Make, Perl, SQL, JavaScript, PHP
LLM Orchestration, Agentic Systems, MCP; Anthropic · Google · OpenAI; Anthropic Academy certified
Git, Emacs, Unix, macOS, SVN, Clearcase, Perforce, LaTeX
Adobe InDesign & Illustrator; Blender, Bambu Studio; Bambu Lab P1S with AMS — multi-material FDM
Supervisory board governance (8 yrs); Municipal Councilor (8 yrs); UGL-certified; technical mentoring
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria · 2010
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria · 2008
Earned Oct – Nov 2026
Completed May 7 – 21, 2026
Africa’s highest peak — summited 18 July 2018
Pilot training for Sailplanes + TMG (EASA); Radiotelephone Operator Certificate for Aeronautical Services; EU Drone Pilot Certificate (A1/A3)
40+ countries across five continents — and counting
Jogging, swimming and hiking
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Hands-on builds — hardware and software projects made for the fun of solving a problem myself.
Built on the road with AI assistance — a single-page reference for country data I'd otherwise have to dig up and research from scratch each time I traveled. Data snapshots across the world — geography, climate, population, economy and more.