Zan Persic

A Cognitive Science & AI student with hands-on experience building and integrating AI solutions — from LLM-powered automation at a startup to fine-tuning open-source models on remote GPU infrastructure. Comfortable translating business needs into working systems via APIs, prompt engineering, and Python. Recently completed a thesis on cross-lingual LLM adaptation; finished 2nd in a cohort-wide deep learning competition.

Looking to apply this mix of practical and research skills to build reliable AI-powered workflows.

AI ENGINEER at Recrubo (2024-01 – 2024-06)

• Developed and optimized AI solutions leveraging open-source LLMs and OpenAI APIs
• Designed prompt and context engineering workflows that improved output reliability for end users
• Managed remote GPU infrastructure for model inference

TEACHING ASSISTANT at Tilburg University (2022-04 – 2022-12)

• Assisted with Programming (Python) and Statistics (R) courses
• Contributed in developing a custom Jupyter notebook alternative
• Helped preparing lecture materials

ADMINISTRATIVE & OPERATIONAL SUPPORT at Palma d.o.o., UPI Žalec (2015 – 2020)

• Database administration and office support

Gimnazija Velenje

BSC in COGNITIVE SCIENCE & AI – Tilburg University (2022 – 2026)