Hi. My name is Josip.

I am a founder, computer scientist and software developer from Croatia. I share my life with a wonderful partner and three great kids.

I like math, algorithms and biology. In my limited free time I like to listen to music, read books and play football.

Flabbergast

I run Flabbergast, a design and software development company from Zagreb.

For five years, my Flabbergast team worked on World App. I was the No. 1 contributor to the World iOS app and led a software engineering team of 15 people. During that time, World grew from zero to 30 million users.

Today, we are mostly focused on building our own products (Logair – digital pilot logbook and Roomy – your own real estate AI agent), especially agentic software.

Bioinformatics

I finished my PhD in bioinformatics, where my work focuses on metagenomics, long-read sequencing and algorithms. My thesis is titled Computational method for determining presence and abundance of species in a metagenomic sample.

In 2024, I co-authored “Comparative analysis of metagenomic classifiers for long-read sequencing datasets”, published in BMC Bioinformatics. The evaluator and benchmark code for that research is available on GitHub.

Right now, I am working on my own long read metagenomics classifier.

Naš Hajduk

I have been a member of the Naš Hajduk citizens association since 2013 and a volunteer since 2016. During that period, I was the solo iOS app contributor to the Naš Hajduk app.

Contact

I don’t use social networks.

If you want to reach me, send me an email at josip.maric90@proton.me.

My GitHub profile is github.com/jmaricb. I’ll fill it with more public work and notes soon.