Vedrana Jankovic

Work Experience

• 2022 — now: Planned career pause, volunteer work and family time
  Regionalbibliothek Adliswil (since September 2021)

  • Initiated and co-implemented bilingual Bookstart program (German/English and German/Croatian) with 20 readings to date.
  • Curated the initial Croatian-language children's book library collection. Designed and delivered Lego Robotics workshops for primary school students, including pedagogical planning.
  • Flexible support for events including bilingual storytelling and cultural workshops
• 2013 — 2022: Senior Software Engineer, Google, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Internal Infrastructure: Explored machine learning-driven automated tools for code review; co-authored patent US11150877B2
  • YouTube Creator Studio iOS (Tech Lead): Led complete app infrastructure overhaul and managed releases
  • YouTube Analytics: Full-stack web and mobile development
  • Led and mentored subteam (2–4 engineers), sponsored underrepresented talent, and conducted internal trainings and recruiting
  • Designed and delivered engineering education workshops for high school students and children
• 2011 - 2012: Software Engineer, In2, Zagreb, Croatia
  Built a platform for investment performance attribution analysis.
• 2010: Software Engineer (Intern), Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Zagreb, Croatia
  Worked on research project "Assessment of multicore programming languages" during Summer Camp.
• 2009: Software Engineer (Intern), Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Zagreb, Croatia
  Research project "PROTO: Multicore SIP parser" during Summer Camp.

Education

• 2011: European Summer School of Language, Logic and Technology
• 2009 - 2011: M.Sc. in Computer Science
  Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Text Analysis and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory
  Supervisors: Assist. Prof. Jan Šnajder, Ph.D., Prof. Bojana Dalbelo-Bašić, Ph.D
• 2006 - 2009: B.Sc. in Computer Science
  Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Consumer Computing Laboratory
  Supervisor: Prof. Siniša Srbljić, Ph.D

Research

While I haven't done serious research in years, I was interested in natural language processing and semantics. During my Masters, I worked on distributional semantic models.

Published papers:

• Random Indexing Distributional Semantic Models for Croatian Language
  Vedrana Janković, Jan Šnajder, Bojana Dalbelo-Bašić
  International Workshop on Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing 2011
• Multicore SIP Parsing with Imperative and Declarative Implementations
  Ivan Skuliber, Vedrana Janković, Ružica Zec
  International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks 2011

Technical Skills

Programming languages: Objective C and Java (current), web development in GWT, and occasional Python.

Projects

• 2009 - 2011: DSM Methods for Measuring Semantic Similarity
  For M.Sc., researched and implemented distributional semantic models (DSMs) for Croatian language. DSMs dynamically build semantic word representations through statistical analysis of word contexts.
• 2011: Hyperlink Constituency
  Project lead: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, MIT
  Investigated syntactic constituency by studying inline hyperlinks in a hypertext corpus.
• 2011: Corpus Explorer
  Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
  Mentor: Prof. Bojana Dalbelo-Bašić, Ph.D.
  Implemented an explorer and visualizer tool for Croatian journal articles provided by Croatian News Agency.
• 2010: Assessment of multicore programming languages
  Mentor: Ivan Skuliber, Ph.D.
  Evaluated multicore programming libraries for C++, Java and Erlang. Implemented universal GLR parser in Erlang.
• 2009: PROTO: Multicore SIP parser
  Mentor: Ivan Skuliber, Ph.D.
  Designed and implemented a 100% compliant SIP parser for multicore processor systems.

Languages

• Croatian (mother tongue)
• English (bilingual proficiency)
• German (intermediate; TELC B1 certified, B2 in progress)
• French (DELF B2; professional reading/comprehension)

Honors and Awards

• 2010: Ericsson NT Student Project of the Year, 1st prize for "Applicability of Multicore Programming Libraries in Parsing"
• 2009: Ericsson NT Student Project of the Year, 1st prize for "Multicore SIP"
• 2006: Croatian State Mathematics Championship 2nd place, state level
• 2006, 2005, 2004: Croatian State Championship in Croatian Language Grammar and Orthography, final round, state level
• 2002 - 2009: Zagreb County scholarship for excellent students