Marko Budiselić
About Marko Budiselić
Marko Budiselić serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Memgraph, where he has played a significant role in the company's technological development since its founding in 2016. He has a strong background in graph databases and real-time data processing, contributing to various innovations and strategic directions at Memgraph.
Work at Memgraph
Marko Budiselić serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Memgraph, a position he has held since 2016. He has played a crucial role in the technological development and strategic direction of the company since its inception. Budiselić co-founded Memgraph, which is a real-time graph database platform that participated in the Techstars London 2016 accelerator program. His responsibilities include scaling Memgraph's technology to meet complex data analytics and visualization needs, as well as contributing to the development of various features and tools, such as the C++ API and the in-house benchmarking tool, Benchgraph.
Education and Expertise
Marko Budiselić has a solid educational background in Computer Science. He studied at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, where he earned a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) from 2010 to 2013, followed by a Master's degree from 2013 to 2015. He also completed his secondary education at XV. Gimnazija in Zagreb from 2006 to 2010. Budiselić has a strong focus on graph databases and real-time data processing, which underpins his contributions to innovation at Memgraph.
Background
Before joining Memgraph, Marko Budiselić gained experience as a Software Engineer at Styria Digital Services for five months in 2016 and at Calyx, a software development company, from 2014 to 2016. His early career provided him with foundational skills in software development, which he later applied to his work at Memgraph. Budiselić has been actively involved in the tech community, sharing insights on graph database technologies and their applications, and he has participated in the Graph Data Zagreb meetups since March 2022.
Achievements
Marko Budiselić has been instrumental in several key developments at Memgraph. He was involved in the launch of Memgraph 1.0 and Memgraph Cloud in May 2020, as well as the source available version of Memgraph 2.0 in October 2021. He played a significant role in building the first in-memory graph database from the ground up and in forming the engineering team in Zagreb in February 2017. Additionally, he contributed to securing $6.7 million in a second seed round led by M12 Microsoft Venture Fund in November 2020.