About & experience

Curiosity, made visible.

Vanja Ivancevic

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.

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Experience

2026–present

Daystrom

Co-founder

AI solutions and workflow automation for businesses.

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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.