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Work Experience

• Remote work as tech lead in devops and SRE, Self employed

  Feb, 2019 - Present

  • raising new teams (SRE and DevOps), while setting proper engineering standards and helping teams follow IaC and GitOps approaches

  • bring entire infrastructure from click-ops to Terraform managed (mostly AWS, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, elastic cloud, heroku, ...)

  • automated creation of Kubernetes clusters in AWS (reduced setting up new cluster from weeks to hours)

  • set up of staging Kubernetes environments on-prem, with various storage backends (Longhorn, Ceph Rook, and Portworx) and deployments using Flux and ArgoCD

  • provisioning and continous delivery of software (custom and infra) on a fleet of servers, serving 8+million requests per second

  • OCI image pipeline for automatic scanning of vulnerabilities and approving images used across a Fortune 1000 company

  • implemented dynamic secrets management as a replacement of plain text in a SaaS used mostly in USA, Canada and Europe

  • containerized multiple apps, optimized migrations (from 20 minutes to 2 minutes), migrated databases (code + infra), solving bugs in worker queues, ...

  • built chatbot, CI flows, feature flag systems, teaching developers k8s and terraform, designing architecture, ...

• Remote work as tech lead in software development, Self employed

  Feb, 2019 - Present

  • [C, Python] kicking correct electron bunches to multiple beam-lines in a FEL accelerator (implementation, testing, observability, documentation and training)

  • [Go] working on new software backed distributed storage solution for a specific storage vendor

  • [Python, Typescript] backend and frontend revamp with migration to GraphQL, resulting in 40% faster operations (measured end-to-end on the frontend) and NPS score increase from -20 to 80

  • [Go] WebHook proxy, controller for LIN bus with web interface and full observability down to device level, stateless API for processing and aggregation of interlock-like signals in a distributed system

  • [Javascript] created a product from scratch and got to first 120 customers before selling the company to my co-founder

  • [Python] feature development and bug fixes on a large product for retailers (and restaurants), implementation of fast imports, migration to new snowflake and elasticsearch

  • Most proficient in Python and Go, I did a lot in Java, JavaScript and C/C++, comfortable with any programming language

• Lead Developer and Arhitect, team lead, Cosylab

  Dec, 2014 - Feb, 20194 years 2 months

  Switzerland, Slovenia, Remote

  • Control systems and medical devices expert

  • Leading medical device development and writing arhitecture

  • Team lead and coach for 10+ developers

  • Automated testing development

  • Go-to guy for questions about expert timing and synchronization systems

  • Planning, reviewing advising and developing components for communication with industrial robots, optical tracking systems, PLCs, accelerator control, ...

  • Development of core framework, enabling easy set-up and reliable communication between software units, under medical standards

  • Lectures about kernel module development, low level interrupt handling, memory maps and communication with hardware, compilers and writing cross platform code

  • Involved with development of control and diagnostic software for laser synchronization systems

  • Driver and high level application development of timing system for accelerator control

  • In-depth knowledge of the MRF timing system (also written user manual and tutorial)

  • EPICS control system integration and device support

  • Development of EPICS CA tools

  • Co-development of beam synchronous data readout system

  • Real-time operation bug hunting in complex multi-threaded systems

  • Open source software development

  • Evaluating expert systems for performance (jitter, data throughput, reliability, ...)

  • Consulting with FPGA development

  • Solving bugs in expert hardware devices and proposing solutions

  • Involved with development of control and diagnostic software for low jitter (pico or sub-pico second range) RF signals distribution systems

  • Development of special purpose control system driver for a data acquisition device

  • Development of a readout-system, designed and built for the data acquisition of the LHC Diamond Beam Loss Monitors that provides on-line, dead-time-free acquisition and analysis of detector signals

• All-rounder, Finančni trgi

  Jan, 2014 - Nov, 201410 months

  • Built high frequency trading application

  • Web development

  • Infrastructure maintenance

• Senior developer and systems engineer, SLOVENIA CONTROL, Slovenian Air Navigation Service

  Jan, 2009 - Jan, 20134 years

  • Preperation and leading of internal education and workshops

  • Company-wide information system and security polices design

  • Native application development for some vital systems used day-to-day (e.g. NOTAM)

• Teacher / Developer, Faculty of Computer and Information Science

  Jan, 2006 - Jan, 20093 years

  • Teaching programming courses

  • Organizing summer school and preparing the content

  • Developing software for learning Slovene language

  • Developing software for cataloging ethnological collections

Education