Vedran Jukić

Vedran Jukić is co-founder and chief technology officer of Daytona, which runs secure sandboxes where AI agents can execute code and keep state across long tasks. He started the company with Ivan Burazin and Goran Draganić after more than a decade building cloud development tools together.

Generating Admin Dashboards From JSON

His interest in developer tools began early with rapid application development tools and scaffolding, according to a Daytona profile. He built his own application generator that could produce an entire admin dashboard from a JSON configuration. "I have always been driven by the desire to remove the fatigue from software development," he said. He then worked for a document management software company before taking a break from software to serve as IT manager for a bank.

Inviting Ivan Burazin Into a Side Project

At the bank he met Burazin. "I was drawn to his spirit and positive thinking. I asked him to be my co-founder for my side project - Codeanywhere," Jukić said. He had come up with the idea while working as a freelance developer, TechCrunch reported in 2014, because he did not want to take his laptop with him constantly and found no good way to code or fix bugs in the cloud. Codeanywhere started in 2009 as PHPanywhere, a web-based FTP client and editor. In 2014 Disrupt NY attendees voted it the best company in Startup Alley, and it later went through Techstars and grew to serve nearly 3 million users.

Rebuilding Daytona Around AI Agents

Daytona first offered standardized development environments for businesses, built on Kubernetes, Kata containers and the Dev Container standard. "I learned early that reinventing the wheel is not always the smartest idea," Jukić said of that design. The founders later moved the company toward running AI agents, a shift Jukić and Burazin discussed on Bret Fisher's podcast, and Codeanywhere was turned off on July 1, 2026.

Personal Life

Outside software, Jukić has a passion for cooking and sees parallels with his work. "A kitchen is essentially a development environment - you need the right ingredients, tools, and setup to create something great," he said. "I love cooking meals for our team."