Blog Type: Life at IW

Six Engineers, One Sleepless Night: Inside an AI Hackathon Team

At 04:00 in the morning, six engineers were still at the same table in Novi Sad. Robin’s latest Playwright test run had just come back red, and one failing scenario stood between them and a working demo. Nobody left. They were Know-VI Sad, three data engineers, two integration engineers and one QA engineer, named after […]

The AI Agent That Started as a Data Problem, Not an AI Problem 

Every AI project starts with a pitch. This one started with a question: are these numbers actually right?  A data pipeline is the chain of steps that moves data from source systems into the reports a business relies on. When a pipeline breaks, it rarely looks broken. It still runs on schedule and the dashboard […]

She’s a Latin Dance Champion. Now She’s Running Delivery in Novi Sad. 

A month into her new role as Delivery Manager in Novi Sad, Bojana Satara Anic had already made her first real call. She noticed that none of the documents she shared with the client leads were being read, so she stopped waiting and started implementing the process, and decided to apologize later if needed. That […]

Meet Verica Solin: The Accidental Tester Taking the SEETEST 2026 Stage

Image alt text Verica Solin, Senior QA Consultant at IWConnect, speaker at SEETEST 2026

On October 7, Verica Solin steps onto the SEETEST 2026 stage in Ljubljana to talk about the future of QA. Before the session, we sat down with her for a different kind of talk. How does a telecom student end up in testing? What did 15 years teach her about quality? And why does AI […]

Building Argus – An Interview with Nikola, Senior technical Consultant, Application Operations

building argus

Every production system has a quiet window, and that window is exactly where the worst problems grow. Nikola spent years watching failures build up between 2am and 10am, then land on engineers at 9:05, in front of everybody. So he spent his evenings building Argus, an AI agent that investigates alerts the way an engineer […]

Why I Stayed at IWConnect: From Team Member to Solution Architect

When people think about building a career in software engineering, they often focus on technologies, certifications, or the next promotion. But lasting careers are rarely built on technical skills alone. They’re shaped by the people we work with, the projects that challenge us, and the opportunities that encourage us to keep growing. As part of […]

Building AI Is Easier When You Already Trust the Team – Claude’s Unpaid Interns

Every hackathon ends with winners. The best ones leave participants with something even more valuable: experience they’ll bring into every project that follows. AI Code Connect 3 once again brought together people eager to experiment with new technologies, challenge their ideas, and build practical AI solutions under tight deadlines. Among them was Claude’s Unpaid Interns, […]

Seven Minds, One Team: How Collaboration and Good Vibes Powered an Award-Winning AI Hackathon Project

AI Code Connect 3 Hackathon MakeNoMistakes Team

Sometimes, the best ideas emerge when talented people from different backgrounds come together, trust each other, and simply enjoy the process. The AI Code Connect 3, our internal hackathon, brought together engineers eager to experiment with new technologies, explore AI-driven development, and solve complex challenges under pressure. Among them was a team of seven colleagues […]

From Data Warehouse to Data Leader: Maja Soleska’s 20-Year Journey in Data

February 11 marks International Day of Women and Girls in Science. We’re celebrating by sharing the story of Maja Soleska, Lead Technical Consultant in Data Management at  ⋮IWConnect. Twenty years ago, Maja Soleska walked into her first Data Warehouse project under Oracle Slovenia’s leadership. She had no idea it would become the foundation of a […]