Petra Ivas

Machine Learning & NLP · Software Engineer

BSc Computer Science (University of London), specialised in machine learning and artificial intelligence. I build end-to-end systems — from data collection and model training to deployed web applications. Based in Madrid, working in English, Spanish and Croatian.

GitHub petra@ivas.is

Projects

CS Paper Classifier

Classifies computer science research papers by discipline and field from a PDF upload. 78k arXiv abstracts, an iterative TF-IDF/LogReg pipeline tuned with Optuna and benchmarked against SciBERT, served by FastAPI + React with a taxonomy-based consistency check. Final-year thesis project.

Python · scikit-learn · FastAPI · React · Docker

Live demo Source

Ugljan by Boat

Production website for a boat rental and tour business in the Zadar archipelago, Croatia — built, deployed and maintained for a paying client. Generates real bookings. Dockerised React app behind Caddy on a DigitalOcean VPS, with self-hosted analytics.

React · JavaScript · Docker · Caddy · DigitalOcean

Live site

At a glance

Stack Python, C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL · scikit-learn, FastAPI, React

Education BSc Computer Science (ML & AI), University of London · C++ software design with Bjarne Stroustrup (Aarhus)

Languages Croatian, English, Spanish (C2) · Icelandic (B2)

Location Madrid, Spain · EU citizen · open to remote (Spain)