Senior Technical Product Manager | AI Systems for the Physical World

Slobodan Ninkov

I take AI systems from prototype to field deployment — sensor fusion, edge inference, simulation-driven validation. 23 years shipping production systems across IoT, RF intelligence, and autonomous platforms. Two patents. Based in Berlin.

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Current Focus

Autonomous Systems & Sensor Fusion

CNN-based RF classification, autonomous agents, and simulation-driven testing and product development.

Decision Systems Under Uncertainty (MSc, 2026)

Bayesian detection frameworks, ML classifiers for noisy sensor data, and decision-making under operational uncertainty.

What I Build

Digital Twins

Built a proprietary drone simulation platform that replaced 95% of physical flight testing, later commercialized as a $200K add-on product. [Case Study]

Sensor Networks

Led a €2M+ IoT network from PoC to multi-territory deployment. Managed a 10-person cross-functional team with mission-critical reliability requirements.

Data Pipelines

Architected high-throughput systems handling €50M+ annual volume and 1M+ daily transactions, with integrated anomaly detection.

How I Work

Field performance is the only honest metric. I prototype before I PowerPoint. I design for the failure modes nobody wants to discuss. Process theater is someone else's job—I build things that work under stress, then hand them off running.

Experience

Technical Product Manager GSMK, Berlin

Cellular network security, RF signal analysis, secure communications infrastructure.

Founder SN Terra Cognitive LTD

Built drone simulation and synthetic data platform for AI training. Commercialized simulation tech, learned hard lessons about product-market fit. [Lessons learned]

Product Owner UTX Technologies

Airborne platforms, simulation systems, and cyber-intelligence products.

Software Architect State Lottery of Serbia

High-throughput transaction systems, fraud detection, and regulatory compliance.[System evolution]