Accomplishments

• Contributed to the digital transformation of Slovenia's largest media publisher, delivering major redesigns and platform improvements across high-traffic news properties serving a significant share of the national online audience.
• Implemented a unified authentication platform that enabled single sign-on across multiple publishing brands and digital properties.
• Improved application performance through database optimization, caching architecture, and infrastructure modernization, reducing page-load times by more than 50%.
• Designed and implemented scalable publishing infrastructure incorporating search, caching, high-availability services, and content delivery systems.
• Delivered digital archive and content-discovery experiences that improved access to historical media content and reader engagement.

• Full Stack Engineer

  Oct 10 - Oct 133 years 1 months

  Ljubljana, Slovenia

  Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain high-traffic publishing platforms supporting news, editorial, and content-discovery experiences.
  • Design and implement shared authentication and identity services across multiple media properties.
  • Improve application performance through database optimization, caching strategies, infrastructure improvements, and search platform enhancements.
  • Build content management, archival, and reader-facing experiences while contributing to platform architecture and operational reliability.
  • Collaborate with editorial, product, and engineering stakeholders on feature delivery, platform evolution, and production operations.

  Accomplishments

  • Delivered major redesigns of Delo.si and Slovenskenovice.si, improving user experience across two of Slovenia's most visited news platforms.
  • Implemented the "Delo One" single sign-on platform, enabling unified authentication across multiple publishing properties and digital brands.
  • Reduced page-load times by 30% through SQL and MySQL optimization and by more than 50% through large-scale caching initiatives using Varnish and Memcached.
  • Designed and contributed to a highly available platform architecture leveraging MySQL, Apache, Solr, Varnish, and Memcached to improve performance and scalability.
  • Delivered a digitized newspaper archive and book-view experience that increased accessibility and engagement with historical content.

  Stack

  • PHP
  • Objective-C
  • JavaScript
  • QCodo
  • Drupal
  • MySQL
  • Varnish
  • Bash
  • Apache
  • Nginx