AI EXPERT — ML · MLOPS · AWS · GENAI

Brando
Koch

8+ years designing and shipping end-to-end AI systems — from data collection through model development to deployment. CEO of privatesynapse.ai.

Brando Koch, machine learning engineer
8+ YEARS IN AI CEO — PRIVATESYNAPSE.AI 3× AWS CERTIFIED 2 PUBLISHED PAPERS LLM · AGENTS · MLOPS · AWS AI MEETUP OSIJEK ORGANIZER 8+ YEARS IN AI CEO — PRIVATESYNAPSE.AI 3× AWS CERTIFIED 2 PUBLISHED PAPERS LLM · AGENTS · MLOPS · AWS AI MEETUP OSIJEK ORGANIZER 8+ YEARS IN AI CEO — PRIVATESYNAPSE.AI 3× AWS CERTIFIED 2 PUBLISHED PAPERS LLM · AGENTS · MLOPS · AWS AI MEETUP OSIJEK ORGANIZER

Experience

SEP 2022 — NOW
CEO & Founder
privatesynapse.ai · Osijek, CRO
Owner of privatesynapse.ai. Developing fully private AI products and services. Three commercial products in market: PrivAgent, PrivASR, and PrivEmbed. Run consulting, development, and research engagements alongside the product line.
PrivAgent (Dec 2025), PrivASR (Feb 2024), and PrivEmbed (Feb 2026) — private AI agents, speech recognition, and embeddings running entirely within client infrastructure
Expert focus: private AI solutions on AWS — models and data never leave your environment
LLM · AI AGENTS · AWS · MLOPS

Projects

CASE STUDY PRIVATESYNAPSE.AI · 2025
Tellofy — AI customer-support chatbot
Tellofy — AI customer-support chatbot
privatesynapse.ai built an AI website support chatbot for Tellofy — indexing site content and knowledge bases to answer customer questions directly, deployed on AWS with Bedrock.
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CASE STUDY PRIVATESYNAPSE.AI · 2025
CTTC — Generative AI on AWS
CTTC — Generative AI on AWS
privatesynapse.ai partnered with ComeToTheClouds to bring Generative AI to their AWS environment — a Retrieval-Augmented Generation solution on AWS Bedrock.
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CASE STUDY AWS CASE STUDY · 2024
Fachklinikum Mainschleife — hospital cloud migration
Fachklinikum Mainschleife — hospital cloud migration
AWS landing zone and on-prem migration for one of the first hospitals in Germany to run its infrastructure entirely on AWS — delivered in pure Terraform (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, monitoring, encryption). Featured as an official AWS case study.
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PRODUCT FEB 2024
PrivASR
PrivASR
Private automatic speech recognition that keeps audio and transcripts inside your environment.
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Credentials

EDUCATION
M.S. Computer Science — Data Science
FERIT Osijek, 2020–2022
Thesis published in Image and Vision Computing (2024): one-shot lip-based biometric authentication
B.S. Computer Science
FERIT Osijek, 2017–2020
Thesis published in Expert Systems with Applications (2023): vision-based parking slot detection
CERTIFICATIONS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services · 2024
AWS Certified Data Analytics — Specialty
Amazon Web Services · 2024
AWS Certified Database — Specialty
Amazon Web Services · 2024
Natural Language Processing
deeplearning.ai · 2021
Deep Learning
deeplearning.ai · 2019
Machine Learning
Stanford · 2019
HIGHLIGHTS
100% job success on Upwork
Top Rated Plus, with one of the platform’s highest contracts ($95k)
Specialist for AI, AWS, MLOps & Agents
Expert for private AI solutions on AWS
Languages
English — full professional · German — limited working · Croatian — native
APR 2023
Vectorized and Non-Vectorized Linear Regression Gradient Calculation
True understanding of a subjects emerges when one is able to build it from the ground up. In this post we do that with linear regression.
ML
NOV 2021
Transformer Paper From Scratch
Clear and concise implementation of the Vaswani, Ashish, et al. Attention is all you need. Advances in neural information processing systems. 2017. paper.
NLP
NOV 2020
LSTM - Intuition, Theory, Implementation
In this post we will be going over the intuition, theory and implementation of a gated RNN, particularly LSTM.
NLP

Media

Brando Koch speaking on Generative AI at an AI Meetup
GOOGLE DEVELOPER GROUP · "GENERATIVE AI — WHAT, HOW & WHY"
JUN 2026 FERIT.AIxperience 2026 — panel: The Future of Software Engineering Careers in the Age of AI PANEL DEC 2025 Interview — poduzetnik.biz PRESS SEP 2025 AI Meetup Osijek #2 — innovation, insights & the future of AI RECAP APR 2025 AI Meetup Osijek — with BIOS incubator COMMUNITY