Forward Deployed Engineer · EMEA
Whether your team needs a push or your idea needs a launch, I take it to production.
I'm Vedran Petrač, a Forward Deployed Engineer: trained in mechatronics, writing software ever since. Between clients I build in the Lab.
From the Lab
Built to understand it.
A peek at what's brewing between client projects: apps, AI tools, maths models and 3D prints, built alone or with collaborators.
What I'm building now
Available soon
Crew: one place for every agency's hours
Crew is a desktop and web app I'm building for self-employed people who work with several agencies or clients, bringing their projects, hours and billing into one place and connecting to each agency's own tool.
Follow the build
Video pipeline: promos drawn in code
A video pipeline I built with Claude Code that draws every frame of my promo and YouTube videos in Python and Blender, with an ElevenLabs voice, and renders a four-minute video in about a minute on my PC.
How my AI agent talks to the CMS
How Claude works with this site's CMS: it prepares drafts through EmDash's MCP tools and rules, I review and publish them, and the site runs on Astro and EmDash in Docker on a small ARM server.
Three entries so far.
AI toolbox
Take the tools I use.
Skills, workflows and prompts from my Claude Code setup: the ones I wrote, and the ones by other people I rely on, marked External. Each comes with the install steps and how I use it, so you can run it today.
- Workflow · Claude Code, HyperFrames, ElevenLabs, Blender
Promo and explainer videos with AI
The workflow I use to make promo and explainer videos with an AI agent: HyperFrames for most scenes, Python and Blender for the heavy visuals, and ElevenLabs for voice and music.
Vedran Petrač · Tested Nov 2026
- Skill · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
PR audit
A skill that reviews a pull request against the laws of code, security, tests and accessibility, and writes a ranked report with a verdict.
Vedran Petrač · Tested Nov 2026
- Skill · Claude Code, Claude.ai
YouTube Shorts script
A skill that writes a YouTube Short from a topic or a long script: three hooks, timed beats with on-screen text, and an ending that loops.
Vedran Petrač · Tested Nov 2026
Eight resources so far, all free, MIT where it applies.
How I work
I work inside your team, on your real problem, until it runs in production.
A Forward Deployed Engineer is the developer who sits inside your team instead of on the other side of a brief: same stand-ups, same repo, same deadline. I come in when a product is stuck and stay until it runs.
About
From mechatronics to production.
- 2014 to 2018Mechatronics
Motors, sensors and the code that drives them. Arduino maths models for classrooms, and four talks on them.
- 2019 to 2023Software engineering
Software for clients, from the first sketch to launch.
- 2023 to nowIn production
Apps and AI tools, shipped from inside client teams to production.
Where I've spoken
- 2018 · ZagrebFrom idea to a model using STEM
- 2018 · CARNetA trig circle model on Arduino
- 2018 · OsijekThe technology behind maths models
- 2017 · PulaDynamic trigonometry
Say hi.
A stuck problem, a Lab idea, or a talk. Write to me and I'll answer within one working day.
- GitHubCode and files from the Lab
- YouTubeLab builds on videoComing in 2027