# Anton Bubna-Litic

> Anton Bubna-Litic is the Founding AI Engineer at NetBox Labs, where he works on agentic systems for network and infrastructure operations. His path runs from mathematics and computational-vision research at the Australian National University through a decade at Quantium, where he advanced from analyst and data scientist to vice president, before joining NetBox Labs in August 2025. Across those roles, his public comments consistently emphasize simple models, production discipline, documented experiments, and useful failures.

- **Role:** Founding AI Engineer at NetBox Labs
- **Organizations:** NetBox Labs, Quantium, Escape Room SA, Australian National University, ETH Zurich
- **Education:** Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours) in Mathematics, The Australian National University, Architecture studies, ETH Zurich
- **Known for:** Progressed from analyst to vice president of data science during a decade at Quantium., Co-authored peer-reviewed and conference research on visual texture discrimination., Finalist in the 2014 GeoNext/GoGet Hackathon for a data-visualization applet.

## Career timeline

- **2009** — Undertook a computational-vision research project with Ted Maddess at the Australian National University while studying mathematics.
- **2010** — Co-authored conference work on quantifying texture discrimination through additive functionals.
- **2012** — Completed a Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours) in Mathematics at the Australian National University.
- **2013** — Co-authored research on locally countable properties and the perceptual salience of textures.
- **2014** — Reached the final of the GeoNext/GoGet Hackathon with a GoGet data-visualization applet.
- **2015** — Co-authored research on mechanisms for discriminating higher-order spatial correlations and began a long tenure at Quantium.
- **2015-2025** — Progressed through analyst, senior data scientist, lead data scientist and vice president roles at Quantium; public profiles credit him with work on retail forecasting and an LLM-based SQL tool.
- **2020** — Shared production machine-learning practices centered on testing, code reuse, monitoring, simple models and close collaboration with engineers.
- **2025** — Joined NetBox Labs as Founding AI Engineer in August.
- **2026** — Described running a weekly augmented engineering guild and documented experiments with prompts, coding agents and NetBox Labs' internal agent platform.
- **2026** — Highlighted the NetBox Labs Platform MCP Server and its codemode sandbox as part of the company's infrastructure intelligence platform launch.

## Achievements

- Progressed from analyst to vice president of data science during a decade at Quantium.
- Co-authored peer-reviewed and conference research on visual texture discrimination.
- Finalist in the 2014 GeoNext/GoGet Hackathon for a data-visualization applet.
- Appointed Founding AI Engineer at NetBox Labs in August 2025.
- Built and shared an experimentation practice for agentic engineering through a weekly internal guild and documented playbooks.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Discussed NetBox Labs' culture of documented AI experimentation, including a weekly augmented engineering guild, directory-specific prompting tests and lessons from an internal agents platform.
- **2026-06** — Highlighted the launch of the NetBox Labs infrastructure intelligence platform and expressed particular pride in its MCP server, which lets agents work through a codemode sandbox.
- **2025-08** — Joined NetBox Labs as Founding AI Engineer after approximately ten years at Quantium.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonbubnalitic

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Last updated: 2026-09-27