Resume

ParakeetAI

• Product engineer across backend, frontend, mobile, and desktop, taking features from zero to production with an AI-native development workflow.
• Built a native audio processing pipeline in Rust.
• Shipped a new landing page and dashboard, and implemented the design system behind them.
• Added fraud prevention features to the platform.
• Owned DevOps: introduced infrastructure as code, set up backups, and sped up desktop app builds.
• Part of the founding team when ParakeetAI was nominated for Slovenian Startup of the Year 2026 and reached the top 5.

EXTRA.DEV

• Played a key role in the backend rewrite of FreedomChat, a privacy-first messaging platform, migrating from Firebase Functions to a scalable NestJS + Socket.IO architecture.
• Contributed to a successful public launch resulting in $78K in early funding, passing a Seald security audit, and media coverage on Yahoo Finance.
• Collaborated closely with the CTO on Blissbook, an interactive digital employee handbook platform used by Fortune 500 companies, delivering features across a React, Express.js, GraphQL, and MySQL stack.
• Designed and integrated AI-powered features to improve product differentiation and unlock new revenue streams.

Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Maribor

• Developed a predictive model for a meal delivery business to forecast next-day meal demand, helping reduce food waste and optimize logistics.
• Built a complete end-to-end ML pipeline, including data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and production deployment.
• Used the OpenAI SDK for text processing, embeddings, and feature generation to enhance data insights and improve model accuracy.

Equaleyes

• Worked on a decentralized identity system, implementing complex user flows and scalable frontend components.
• Optimized performance of large, state-heavy UI components to maintain smooth user interactions.
• Participated in architectural and design decisions, balancing usability, scalability, and performance.

nChain

• Owned the frontend development of the initial release of a decentralized certificate management system, enabling secure certificate storage, viewing, and sharing.
• Contributed to multiple backend microservices using GraphQL, REST APIs, and message queues to support scalable data flows.
• Built complex admin dashboards with RBAC, following OWASP Top 10 security practices and ensuring full mobile responsiveness.

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor

• Designed and developed a system to predict solar power plant production in collaboration with Dravske Elektrarne Maribor.
• Implemented a CI/CD pipeline for automated testing, integration, and deployment.
• Built a high-performance backend using NestJS, MongoDB, and Cassandra.

Endava

• Led development of an internal seat reservation system used across Slovenian offices.
• Translated Figma designs into fully responsive React components.
• Designed and implemented backend infrastructure using NestJS, ensuring data integrity and efficient reservation handling.

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor