Director of Software Engineering with over 15 years of experience building scalable software and leading engineering teams. At Plume Design, leads 7 direct reports and a 9-member API team. Architected zero-downtime cloud migrations of over 10 million customers and consolidated 1,500 APIs into fewer than 400. Three-time startup CTO and co-founder who helped secure over $3 million in funding. Co-inventor on four patent applications, with experience in distributed systems, API design and computer vision.
Celje, Slovenia
Experience
Director of Software Engineering
Sep 2025 - PresentPlume Design, Inc.
Leading engineering teams at a telecommunications company focused on smart home and WiFi solutions, with 7 direct reports and a 9-member API team.
Across all roles at Plume (Sep 2020 - Present):
- Architected, led and executed large-scale live customer migrations between production clouds with zero downtime, moving over 10 million customers.
- Modernized Plume's APIs, reducing 1,500 APIs to fewer than 400 and making interfaces more concise across engineering teams.
- Standardized authentication/authorization, deprecation policy and API design guidelines.
- Built a documentation portal used by 500 ISPs worldwide.
Technologies: TypeScript, NestJS, Node.js, MongoDB, Kafka, Grafana, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, Microservices
Staff Software Engineer
Jan 2023 - Sep 2025Plume Design, Inc.
Technologies: TypeScript, NestJS, Node.js, MongoDB, Kafka, Grafana, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, Microservices
Senior Software Engineer
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023Plume Design, Inc.
Technologies: TypeScript, NestJS, Node.js, MongoDB, Kafka, Grafana, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, Microservices
CTO & Co-Founder
Jun 2019 - Oct 2020CoilPay Technologies Inc.
Bank-issued smart wearable-enabled payment ecosystem for micropayments. Built an Android-like ecosystem of MicroApps for Coil wearables including smartwatch functionality.
- Developed hardware prototypes.
- Participated in Startupbootcamp, a month-long startup accelerator program in Dubai (2020).
Technologies: Embedded C
CTO & Co-Founder
Aug 2018 - Sep 2020MikMik
Integrated electric scooter micro-rental system focused on green mobility and innovation. Operated in Ljubljana, Piran, and Koper with expansion plans across Europe.
- Deployed 1,500 scooters across multiple cities in Slovenia.
- Built a fleet management backend system for tracking and managing scooters.
- Developed hardware prototypes for a scooter locking mechanism.
Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, Kafka, GCP, Terraform, DevOps, Microservices
CTO & Co-Founder
Nov 2013 - Nov 2019Reveel Technologies, Inc.
First company to help brands and media outlets increase revenue by adding interactive experiences to visual media. Based in San Francisco, CA.
- Led a team of 6 engineers.
- Helped secure over $3 million in funding from Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
- Participated in the Tech Wildcatters 3-month startup accelerator in Dallas, Texas (2014).
- Designed and developed the content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system the company used to identify visual content in images and videos.
- Scaled the system to low-latency operation across a large database of visual content, from 20 thousand to 20 million images.
Technologies: C++, OpenCV, MongoDB, gRPC, GCP
Computer Programmer
Nov 2011 - Aug 2015Studio Kreativis d.o.o.
- Built a desktop CAD application for designing fair booth layouts and installations.
- Developed miscellaneous WordPress plugins.
- Built and maintained WordPress websites.
Technologies: PHP, C#, Visual Studio, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Computer Programmer
Dec 2009 - Feb 20113zsistemi
- Co-developed an AJAX-based CMS framework.
Technologies: JavaScript, PHP
Skills
Leadership
Engineering
Domain Expertise
Spoken Languages
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
2009 - 2012University of Maribor
Computer Science and Information Technologies
Certifications
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) - Scrum Alliance, 2022
- Managing Multiple Generations - LinkedIn Learning, 2023
Patents
DNS Response Delay Scaled by Per-Fingerprint Request Frequency for Blocked and Paused Domains
2026US Application 19/728,395 · Pending, unpublished · Plume Design Inc
With Miha Klokočovnik, Rik Williams
Dynamic DNS Response Shaping via Client Behavioral Fingerprinting for Blocked and Paused Domains
2026US Application 19/728,461 · Pending, unpublished · Plume Design Inc
With Miha Klokočovnik, Rik Williams
US 2026/0099312 A1 · Published application · Plume Design Inc
With Miha Klokočovnik, Gabrijel Jurković, Žiga Keržan, Jaka Maver, Mario Balukčić
US 2016/0105731 A1 · Published application · Reveel Technologies Inc
With Matija Verbovšek
Conference Talks
ROSUS 2018: Computer image processing and its application in Slovenia