About & experience
Curiosity, made visible.

I’m Vanja. I like getting to the bottom of complicated things and finding a clear way to share what I’ve learned.
My work brings together analysis, design and software. I care about where the data comes from, what it leaves out, and how someone will actually use the result. That curiosity carries through to AI: finding practical ways to help people write, understand information and spend less time on repetitive work.
I enjoy both figuring out what a project needs to say and building the thing that says it — whether that’s a chart, a publication or an app.
Get in touch →Experience
2026–present
From September 2020
Freelance
Independent work
Data visualisation, visual storytelling and digital projects.
2016–2020
DATUM Magazine
Editor / Journalist
A monthly data visualisation column on politics, economics and society. Research and visualisation support for journalists, alongside mentoring journalism interns.
2017–2018
ERSTE Foundation
Editor / Journalist
Monthly data visualisations supporting articles on civil rights, politics, economics and society.
2012–2016
Erste Group Bank
Country Analyst
Research on economic affairs, industries and policy. Development of macroeconomic, fiscal and financial databases, economist roundtables and university guest lectures.
2010–2012
Erste Group Bank
Market Risk Analyst
Regulatory stress testing, capital adequacy exercises and development of probabilistic, historical and macro-based stress-testing models.
Education / 2005–2009
University of Glasgow
MA in Economics with Honours. Development economics, international trade, economic history and monetary policy.
Languages & tools
Applied AI, workflow automation and app development — alongside data analysis, visualisation and editorial design.
English, German and Serbo-Croatian.
R, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Gephi, Excel, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, HTML and CSS.