About the author

Milorad

/ˈmiːlɔrad/

37 years old, Berlin

Personal info

I am Milorad Filipović, a father and a husband, currently levitating between my three homes: Croatia, Serbia and Germany, with Berlin as our home base.

I am a hard-core Formula 1 fan and a McLaren supporter - have been so ever since I laid my hands on a demo version of Formula One 99 game in the summer of 1999. That’s about the only sport that I actively follow. During the off-season, I like to spend my time snowboarding across Europe with my little snowboard crew.

I read regularly but take my time with books, working through my list at a steady pace. You can follow my reading on Goodreads.

Musically, I’d call myself a metalhead, though rap will always be my first love. I spent my college years playing bass guitar and am currently learning the basics of an electric guitar with varying success. I catch as many live shows as I can and I’m slowly building a vinyl collection, one record at a time.

Education

I studied computer science at University of Novi Sad, Serbia where I earned my PhD in 2024.

Professional info

After graduation, I spent a decade working at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, teaching various programming courses such as Introduction to Programming, Web Design, and Object-Oriented Programming.

As a side gig, I also worked on a lot of different projects as a freelance full-stack developer.

As soon as front-end engineering became a thing, my passion for visual design and product-mindedness made me switch to the user-facing side of software engineering. I was one of the original front-end instructors at the FTN Informatika bootcamp, helping shape the curriculum and teaching hundreds of students over the years.

I got my first gig as a full-time front-end engineer at Open Law Library, working on a small React project (Open Law Draft) at first before kicking off Vue-based OLL Publish.

Currently, I work as a senior front-end engineer at n8n. Besides being responsible for most of the UI bugs you encounter there, I’ve been in charge of several of n8n’s AI features, namely the AI Assistant and the Instance-level MCP server. So I guess, by LinkedIn standards, I could also call myself an AI engineer.