16 Oct 2026 · 2 views · Databases and Structured Data

Experts Opinion with Biljana Malešević

Hosted by Christian Bollensdorff

Experts Opinion with Biljana Malešević – Databases, Data Quality & Coding in the Age of AI In this episode of Experts Opinion, I speak with Biljana Malešević, Senior Oracle and MS SQL Database Developer and Senior Master Data Management Consultant, with around 30 years of hands-on experience in databases, data integration and software development. Biljana takes us behind the scenes of the "invisible support of business": the databases and applications that companies rely on every day. She shares how she went from a child who loved math to studying IT in the early 90s, and how she has since built and maintained systems in Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, ERP and Product Information Management (PIM) environments for large clients. From her experience translating business requirements into reliable technical solutions, Biljana explains why quality starts with testing and asking the right questions, why you should never tell a client that something is impossible, and how understanding a client's business is the key to building software they actually want to use. In this conversation, we explore: ✅ How she found her way from mathematics into software development ✅ Her quality mantra: testing and questions ✅ Why user testing by non-technical people catches what developers miss ✅ The secret of good customer interaction: professionalism and offering alternatives ✅ Why you need to understand your client's business, from HR to cranes and ships ✅ Data clean-up and preparation: turning messy data into usable formats with her own tools ✅ Why structured-data skills are an advantage in the age of AI, and how AI rewards clean code ✅ Why troubleshooting and debugging are a big part of developing software ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:41 From math to software development 2:38 Quality: testing and questions 4:39 Customer interaction: never say impossible 5:24 What she likes most about working with clients 6:42 Understanding the client's business 7:46 Data clean-up and preparation 10:56 Structured data and AI 13:09 AI-suggested code and clean code 14:36 Troubleshooting and debugging 15:59 Thank you ________________________________________ 👤 Connect with Biljana Malešević: https://www.linkedin.com/in/biljanamalesevic/ ________________________________________ 📺 Explore more interviews and expert conversations: https://www.youtube.com/@experts-opinion-ex1