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It was a pleasure to host a group of aspiring young talents in our Novi Sad office through the Digital Serbia Initiative | Inicijativa „Digitalna Srbija“. Digital Serbia is a non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to developing a strong and globally competitive digital economy in Serbia. Through a wide range of educational and industry-focused programs, the initiative connects students, academia, and the technology sector, creating valuable opportunities for learning, collaboration, and professional growth. 🚀During the visit, the young talents were introduced to Symphony’s work, our approach to delivering high-impact technology solutions, and the key skills required in today’s digital industry. We are happy to support initiatives that help develop future digital talent and strengthen the wider innovation community!

Our experts will share practical insights on applied AI and engineering at the Data Science Conference, Europe’s leading AI and Data event. Explore their topics here: 🔹 Ivan Davidov - “𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲” Ivan will present a scientific and systematic approach to prompt optimization, introducing the RAG Triad for measuring LLM quality and showcasing DSPy, a framework that transforms prompting from intuition to science, thereby improving reliability, cost, and latency. 🔹 Marcos Heidemann - “𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗲: 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲” Marcos will reveal what it takes to turn AI coding assistants into real productivity tools, sharing proven methods to manage unpredictability, guide outputs effectively, and maintain control over production code quality. 📍Join us at DSC Europe 25 in Belgrade! 🗓️ 17th - 21st November

🚀 Next in our AI Tools and Tips series is Dragan Vanchov, Software Tester at Symphony, sharing how Cursor is transforming his testing workflow. 💡 Insider tip:  “When creating Playwright tests, use the codegen command to generate a basic flow for your application. Then, by adding comments for each component in the generated test, you can use Cursor to quickly create basic interactions with your web app, without spending time manually mapping every UI component to your code.” ✌️ Stay tuned as more of our team members share how AI is transforming their work.

We are proud to announce our partnership with Data Science Conference, Europe’s Leading AI & Data Event, as a Gold Sponsor! 🎤 If you’re looking to gain valuable insights, make sure to join our sessions led by: Ivan Davidov, Practice Lead for Engineering at Symphony Marcos Heidemann, Principal ML/DS Engineer at Symphony They will be sharing practical insights on building scalable, impact-driven AI solutions. Stay tuned for more details on their sessions! You can also find us at the Symphony booth and beer corner, where we'd love to connect, exchange ideas, and talk about AI and data. Save the date for DSC Europe 25 in Belgrade! 🗓️ 17th-21st November 2025

Symphony’s PE leadership team will join the world’s largest PE operating partner community in New York to share more about our work with PE funds and their portcos in driving AI transformation, modernizing legacy systems, digitizing operations, automating workflows, and building data platforms. Our work with different types of portcos involves partnering across industries, including vertical and horizontal software, tech-enabled services, healthcare and life sciences, industrials, and consumer portcos to drive digital transformation initiatives with AI at the core. Recent examples of our work with PE portcos include: - Legacy SaaS: Modernized a legacy platform within 8 weeks to enable LLM-powered FP&A upsell opportunities. - Healthcare and Life Sciences: Integrated ML-driven claims processing, reducing manual workloads by 30–50% and increasing analyst capacity by 40–50 accounts daily. - Workflow and process automation: Built an AI system to process 400K+ risk documents annually, cutting manual review by 40% and boosting report speed by 80% Partner with Symphony to unlock AI-driven value creation across your portfolio companies.

Ready to tackle new challenges and shape innovative solutions? 🚀 We’re expanding our team and looking for skilled professionals to help us move our projects forward. 👇 Open positions: Delivery Director 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dE6wyYQB Backend Engineer (Python) 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d3VDHfSy Data Engineer (AWS or Azure) 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dvKJ8-CG If these roles sound like the next step in your career, feel free to reach out or apply directly through the links above. We’d love to hear from you!

🚀 Next in our AI Tools and Tips series is Lana Malić, ML/DSc Engineer at Symphony, sharing how OpenAI Codex is redefining her development workflow. For Lana, Codex serves as both a coding partner and a reviewer, understanding the entire repository to explain logic, identify bugs, and ensure consistency across files. 💡 Insider tip: "Create an AGENTS.md in your repo that defines expert roles (frontend, backend, testing, etc.), their main purpose, and the standards they must follow. This boosts performance in larger codebases." ✌️ Stay tuned as more of our team members share how AI is transforming their work. #EmployeeSpotlight #AIWorkflow #AIProductivity #MachineLearning 

Our new podcast episode is live! In this conversation with Greg Lamp, CTO at Civitas Learning (a Francisco Partners portco), we dive into how AI is reshaping software engineering at scale. Just some of the highlights:  • Why R&D costs as a percentage of revenue drop with scale - a huge unlock for all PE-backed software businesses  • How Civitas Learning achieved 6x engineering productivity, faster pull requests, and significant automation in code generation  • The impact on customers with engineers repurposed to work directly with users, deliver quick fixes, and reduce friction in customer success  • The ability to finally tackle tough tech debt while still shipping new features that fuel cross-sell opportunities This is more than metrics. It is a real story of a dev team falling in love with agentic coding and what that means for building best-in-class engineering organizations. If you are thinking about efficiency, scale, and unlocking engineering time in your own portfolio companies, this episode is for you. 🎥 Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/exBPXFgU 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/e7HHXHYA

In our latest Behind the Code episode, Jenny Karuna, Chief Product Officer, explores how roles are evolving with AI.  “Instead of roles merging, each discipline is becoming very good at developing and employing its own 'assistant' or digital twin, essentially a duplicate of themselves they can put to work.” Here’s the insight: 🔹 Engineers must be sharper than ever at refining and assembling code 🔹 Product managers need an even stronger product sense to guide LLMs effectively 🔹 Confidence from AI isn’t enough, human judgment is the safeguard against bad solutions 🎥 Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dKmMuxaY  🎧 Listen on Spotify:  https://lnkd.in/dMMMUg2T 

At just 17 years old, Ema Emina Nefić has made history as Bosnia and Herzegovina’s first junior rider to qualify for the FEI European Dressage Championship 2025 in Le Mans, France. For Symphony, this partnership highlights our belief that talent should be visible, supported, and celebrated. Ema's journey reflects the same values we live by every day: discipline, excellence, and inspiration. 🌍🐎 👉 Read the full story on our blog: https://lnkd.in/daQ4Ncec