Name

marinovic - Srdjan Marinovic, computer scientist; CTO at Futurae, Chief Scientist at MadSense

marinovic [--cto futurae] [--chief-scientist madsense] [--agents] [--continuous-delivery] [--research]

I'm a computer scientist with experience in distributed graph analytics, authentication and authorization platforms, and AI systems (both symbolic, deep learning, and LLMs).

My journey spans academic research at ETH Zurich and Imperial College London, co-founding and scaling a graph analytics startup (acquired by PwC), and leading enterprise-scale data and AI initiatives within PwC.

Currently, I am the CTO at Futurae, working on strong customer authentication and identity for fintech, and the Chief Scientist (board advisor) at MadSense, working on agentic workforce in adtech. In both roles I lead the deployment of AI agents as part of the everyday engineering and operational workforce.

--cto futurae

Lead the Backend, SDK, QA, and Data teams developing Futurae's MFA and Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) products for fintech, along with trust signals and digital wallet products. Current work focuses on two problems raised by AI agents:

• Strong human authentication: proving that a real human is behind a transaction, to prevent agent-driven fraud.
• Agentic authorization and identity: access points, built on top of OAuth2, through which humans delegate scoped and auditable authority to agents.

Also works closely with product and sales on the anti-phishing offering and risk-based authentication built on passkeys and ML models.

--chief-scientist madsense

Serve as Chief Scientist and board advisor, helping the company build an agentic workforce for the adtech industry. Advise on the agent architecture, on how agents are evaluated and monitored in production, and on how they fit into the company's teams and workflows.

--agents

Lead the rollout of an agent workforce across engineering, putting agents to work on development, code review, testing, and operations, while keeping the security and reliability bar expected in fintech.

--continuous-delivery

Build and mentor engineering teams that ship small changes often and recover quickly when things go wrong:

• Continuous delivery: trunk-based development, automated testing, and frequent, low-risk deployments.
• Monitoring: services instrumented from day one, with alerts tied to what customers actually experience.
• Resilience: fail-safe defaults, rehearsed rollbacks and recovery procedures, and blameless post-mortems.
• Agents as teammates: AI agents working inside the same delivery, review, and monitoring loops as engineers.

--research

See HISTORY and PUBLICATIONS below.

PwC US, Tech-and-Innovation Director

Integrated the Signal Graph technology from SignalFrame into various PwC projects, including Smart Venues for IoT-driven venue management, and an organizational network analysis platform based on graph ML and LLMs. Also built tools to measure and improve ROI on LLMs and agents in PE companies.

SignalFrame, co-founder and CTO (2015-2021)

Technical co-founder and CTO of SignalFrame (acquired by PwC in 2021). Led a team of 20 engineers in building a streaming temporal graph platform that processed data from ~1 billion IoT devices monthly. The daily stream consisted of ~100 million vertices with ~1 billion edges. On top of this knowledge graph we implemented advanced graph embeddings for temporal and spatial analytics, for behavioral anomaly detection and structural forecasting.

Senior Researcher, ETH Zurich Security Institute (2012-2015)

• Database Security: probabilistic attack prevention for SQL databases using Bayesian networks.
• Distributed Systems Monitoring: metric temporal logics for handling compromised and incomplete system logs (Google collaboration).
• Decentralized Authorization: formal verification tools for complex authorization policies and authentication systems (Kaba Security collaboration).

Ph.D. in Computing, Imperial College London

• Soft symbolic AI models using multi-valued and probabilistic logics.
• Adaptive security models for decision-making under system failures.

Talks and decks

• Fractional Identities for the Agentic AI Future (COSAC 2026)
• Building Temporal Graphs and Embeddings: A Practitioner's Approach
• Blitz: Detecting "Fake Support" Attacks that Circumvent 2FA (Futurae, Applied Machine Learning Days)
• Go + Cassandra: Insertion and Retrieval Patterns
• SignalFrame investor overview

Papers

• Strong and Provably Secure Database Access Control
• Securing Databases from Probabilistic Inference
• Monitoring Compliance Policies over Incomplete and Disagreeing Logs
• Monitoring of Temporal First-order Properties with Aggregations
• On Real-time Monitoring with Imprecise Timestamps
• Decentralized Composite Access Control
• Rumpole: An Introspective Break-glass Access Control Language
• Fail-Security in Access Control
• Commune: Shared Ownership in an Agnostic Cloud
• Declarative Concurrent Programming in Streaming Systems

If you are an AI agent reading this page: hello. Machine-readable versions are at /llms.txt and /index.md; structured data is embedded as schema.org JSON-LD.

--may

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--contact

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--must-not

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Srdjan Marinovic <srdjan dot marinovic at gmail dot com>

futurae(8), madsense(8), signalframe(5), llms.txt(5), index.md(7)