Marin Smiljanic

Co-Founder and CEO @ Omnisearch

About

Software engineer and entrepreneur with extensive experience at both startups and Big Tech. Currently working on Omnisearch (https://omnisearch.ai/). Formerly an engineer at Amazon, where I worked on AWS S3 and Alexa, the intelligent voice assistant. Passionate about AI, distributed systems, search, and computer science generally. Highly customer-obsessed and focused on delivering the best possible value to our users.

Country

United States

City

San Francisco

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

C++, Algorithms, Java, C, Data Structures, Git, Python, Linux, MySQL, Compilers, Qt, Programming, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Databases, Systems Programming, Teamwork, Networking, Lisp, Web Development

Experience

Co-Founder and CEO

Omnisearch

2021-4 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Omnisearch is a multimodal AI company developing software for searching massive archives of multimedia content such as video, audio and images. Since starting in 2021, Omnisearch has raised $1.5M in VC funding and acquired customers ranging from small startups to publicly traded companies in the US.

Founder and CEO

QuickNews

2019-5 - 2020-8 · 1 yr 4 mos

Vancouver, Canada Area

Founder and CEO of QuickNews, an AI-powered news aggregator and recommender. We released both an Android an iOS app and developed our own recommendation and search algorithms using Doc2Vec. We altogether got thousands of downloads across both marketplaces.

Software Development Engineer

Amazon

2016-10 - 2019-5 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Vancouver, Canada Area

Initially on the S3 (Simple Storage Service) Index team. My team was in charge of, simply speaking, making the service scale to tens of trillions of objects and millions of requests per second. Developed complex distributed systems code, working in Java. Afterwards joined the Alexa (intelligent voice assistant) team, where I worked on the email integration. This allowed users to ask Alexa to check their emails or notify them when they got an email from a certain contact.

Software Engineer

SingleStore

2015-10 - 2016-4 · 7 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked on MemSQL integration with the Apache Spark framework. Afterwards worked on various smaller features focusing on the columnstore, clustering and replication. Also did scenario testing for several customer workloads. Worked in C++, with testing in Python.

Software Engineering Intern

SingleStore

2014-7 - 2014-10 · 4 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked on numerous features of MemSQL’s in-memory database product. The most important projects were optimizing query performance for columnar tables, and building the first version of columnar table replication. The project was in C++, along with Python for test code. As a side project, I built a tool for use by sales representatives for lead generation, using the Flask framework for Python.

Software Engineering Intern

Facebook

2013-7 - 2013-10 · 4 mos

Menlo Park, California

Worked on the Site Integrity Infrastructure team. The team built the engine for Facebook’s spam filtering logic. As part of my internship, I built data structures for fast querying of various statistical properties of data sets. The project used pure C++.