# Dipl.-Ing. Muhammed Durakovic

> Solutions Architect and AI Engineer in Graz, Austria. I design and ship AI systems that run in production on enterprise data — data, models, software, infrastructure, security and operations as one system.

Source: https://durakovic.ai/about/ · Author: Dipl.-Ing. Muhammed Durakovic · Updated: 2026-10-14

## In short

- **Name:** Muhammed Durakovic (also written Muhammed Duraković; sometimes misspelled “Muhamed Durakovic”)
- **Academic title:** **Dipl.-Ing.** (Diplom-Ingenieur) — Graz University of Technology (TU Graz)
- **Role:** Solutions Architect & AI Engineer · independent practice (IT-Dienstleistung, WKO Steiermark)
- **Based in:** Graz, Styria, Austria — working across DACH (Austria, Germany, Switzerland)
- **Languages:** German (native), English (fluent, executive level), Bosnian
- **Contact:** [hello@durakovic.ai](mailto:hello@durakovic.ai)

## What I do

I take an organization from “we should use AI” to a system that runs in production: technical discovery, architecture, implementation, deployment and adoption. My specialty is making AI agents safe and useful on production enterprise data — especially Oracle databases at billions-of-records scale.

- **8+ years** across software delivery, technical leadership and applied AI; **7 years** of pre-sales technical work — discovery, demos, architecture proposals and executive presentations in German and English.
- Shipped a customer-facing LLM system for security and risk detection over years of telecom data.
- Built a Rust engine that compresses a multi-day Oracle workload into a seconds-long hot path over billions of records.
- Led logistics IT change-request programs end to end — scoping, estimation, delivery and rollout.

## Open-source work Oracle itself cites

I wrote the original clean-room, pure-Rust Oracle Database thin driver and published it on crates.io as `oracledb` (21 releases, June–July 2026). In August 2026 that crate name passed to Oracle’s own driver team for the official Rust driver — and their README names me:

> “This replaces the original Rust thin driver produced by Muhammed Durakovic. The new name for that driver is oraclemcp-driver-cx.”
>
> — [Oracle, rust-oracledb README — History](https://github.com/oracle/rust-oracledb#history)

- [rust-oracledb / oraclemcp-driver-cx](https://durakovic.ai/projects/rust-oracledb/) — the original pure-Rust Oracle thin driver. 2,462 python-oracledb conformance tests passing, zero unsafe.
- [oraclemcp](https://durakovic.ai/projects/oraclemcp/) — safe-by-default Oracle access for AI agents, in the official MCP registry.
- [plsql-intelligence](https://durakovic.ai/projects/plsql-intelligence/) — offline code intelligence and change-impact analysis for Oracle PL/SQL.
- [invoicekit](https://durakovic.ai/projects/invoicekit/) — one Apache-2.0 engine for global B2B e-invoicing.
- [Tilawi](https://durakovic.ai/projects/tilawi/) — a free AI Qur’an companion with on-device speech recognition, on the App Store and Google Play.

## Education

- **Dipl.-Ing., Software Engineering and Management — Intelligent Systems**, TU Graz. Master’s thesis: [“Examination of the organizational culture of IT service providers”](https://repository.tugraz.at/publications/75s2v-y2137) (2025, DOI [10.3217/75s2v-y2137](https://doi.org/10.3217/75s2v-y2137)).
- **B.Sc., Software Engineering and Management**, TU Graz. Bachelor’s thesis on persistent fault attacks on the PRESENT block cipher, including fault analysis for key recovery.
- **HTL BULME Graz** — higher technical college, electrical engineering.
- Study assistant and tutor at TU Graz (2020–2023): structured programming in C and object-oriented programming in C++.

## Elsewhere

[GitHub](https://github.com/MuhDur) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/muhammed-durakovic-70047516a) · [X @itsmuhdur](https://x.com/itsmuhdur) · [crates.io](https://crates.io/users/MuhDur) · [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/muhdur) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1777-7687)

[Email hello@durakovic.ai](mailto:hello@durakovic.ai?subject=Hello)