Djordje Ivanovic, written Đorđe Ivanović in Montenegrin and sometimes transliterated as Djordje Ivanovich, is a computer science student at Harvard and an AI engineer from Montenegro. He works across agentic systems, AI security, government technology, public-data infrastructure, machine learning, robotics, and neuroscience.
Current work
Refractal
Forward Deployed Engineer, 2026. Building the runtime security layer for production AI agents: least-privilege tool access, sandboxed execution, permission boundaries, approval gates, and auditable control over agent actions.
Office of the Prime Minister, Montenegro
AI Engineer & Technology Advisor, 2026. Designed and built government AI systems spanning internal knowledge, legislation, public records, retrieval, and agentic workflows, while advising on sovereign AI architecture, compute infrastructure, and national technology strategy.
Education
Harvard University
A.B. Computer Science; Secondary in Neuroscience. May 2027.
coursework →UWC Adriatic
Duino.
Experience
Refractal
Forward Deployed Engineer, 2026. Building the runtime security layer for production AI agents: least-privilege tool access, sandboxed execution, permission boundaries, approval gates, and auditable control over agent actions.
Office of the Prime Minister, Montenegro
AI Engineer & Technology Advisor, 2026. Designed and built government AI systems spanning internal knowledge, legislation, public records, retrieval, and agentic workflows, while advising on sovereign AI architecture, compute infrastructure, and national technology strategy.
Zenlytic
Software Engineer Intern, 2025. Built evaluation, fine-tuning, and continual-learning systems for an AI analytics agent, including a closed-loop pipeline from verified answers into training data.
Coinis
Software Engineer Intern, 2024. Built ad infrastructure and early AI systems for generating and ranking high-converting landing pages.
Projects
MNE-MCP
A machine-readable national data layer across 27 government sources and 1M+ raw records, with MCP tools for source-grounded access to legislation, companies, procurement, courts, finance, and public records.
technical note →Sovereign BCMS LLM
Training open models for government use across BCMS language, legislation, and public-sector knowledge.
Talas
A people-intelligence system for finding the right people across the Balkans and its global diaspora.
talas.app ↗Voice MNE-MCP
A voice interface for querying Montenegro’s legislation and public records naturally.
Harvard Rover
Software team lead for an autonomous rover combining perception, SLAM, planning, and navigation. 2024–present.
Research
Zitnik Lab, Harvard SEAS
Research engineering, 2024–2026. Built and optimized autonomous systems for generating and evaluating scientific hypotheses.
Pfister Lab, Harvard SEAS
Research engineering, 2024–2026. Turned connectomics graph queries that took hours into queries that ran in minutes.
Writing
Go. Be Changed. Return.
Essay by Đorđe Ivanović on Montenegro, brain drain, EU accession, and advice for young Montenegrins — go abroad to be changed, stay connected, and bring standards home.
Press and recognition
Pobjeda
Coverage connecting Đorđe Ivanović, Montenegro, and Harvard.
pobjeda.me ↗Business Wire
Code Metals Metal-Ops Hackathon coverage naming Djordje Ivanovic of Harvard.
businesswire.com ↗