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.
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
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
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
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
PrivASR
Private automatic speech recognition that keeps audio and transcripts inside your environment.
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PUBLICATION
One-shot lip-based biometric authentication
Master thesis research published in Image and Vision Computing (2024): extending behavioral features with authentication phrase information.
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PROJECT
OnScript AI — call-center QC platform
Generative-AI quality control for call-center recordings — speech recognition, speaker diarization, and retrieval-augmented LLMs that answer questions about a call and grade it against configurable criteria.
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PUBLICATION
Vision-based parking slot detection
Automatic parking slot detection and occupancy classification from camera imagery, published in Expert Systems with Applications (2023).
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OPEN SOURCE
Attention Is All You Need — from scratch
Full implementation of the original Transformer paper (Vaswani et al., 2017) in PyTorch, written as learning material.
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OPEN SOURCE
PyTorch sequence models
A variety of sequence model architectures implemented from scratch, structured to serve as learning material.
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OPEN SOURCE
Neural Style Transfer paper
Implementation of the neural style transfer paper — transferring artistic style between images with deep networks.
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OPEN SOURCE
Real estate price prediction
End-to-end classical ML project: data collection, feature engineering, and price prediction for real-estate listings.
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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
Blog
All posts →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.
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.
LSTM - Intuition, Theory, Implementation
In this post we will be going over the intuition, theory and implementation of a gated RNN, particularly LSTM.
Media
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