Accomplishments

• Led Major Platform Redesigns: Directed the full-stack architecture and redesign of Delo.si and Slovenskenovice.si using PHP, Drupal, and JavaScript.
• Unified Network Authentication: Designed and implemented "Delo One," a cross-property single sign-on (SSO) and shared authentication service that unified logins across the publisher’s entire network of brands.
• Drastically Reduced Page Latency: Slashed page-load times by 30% through advanced SQL/MySQL database tuning, and by more than 50% via large-scale Varnish and Memcached caching integrations.
• Engineered Search & Archive Features: Built a custom digitized newspaper archive book-view experience and scaled platform search capabilities using Apache Solr.

• Full Stack Engineer

  Oct 10 - Oct 133 years 1 months

  Ljubljana, Slovenia

  Responsibilities

  • Web Architecture Ownership: Managed full-stack technical delivery, architectural redesigns, and high-availability publishing infrastructure for Slovenia’s largest media properties.
  • Authentication & Search Systems: Managed cross-property identity services and platform-wide indexing strategies.

  Accomplishments

  • Led Major Platform Redesigns: Directed the full-stack architecture and redesign of Delo.si and Slovenskenovice.si using PHP, Drupal, and JavaScript.
  • Unified Network Authentication: Designed and implemented "Delo One," a cross-property single sign-on (SSO) and shared authentication service that unified logins across the publisher’s entire network of brands.
  • Drastically Reduced Page Latency: Slashed page-load times by 30% through advanced SQL/MySQL database tuning, and by more than 50% via large-scale Varnish and Memcached caching integrations.
  • Engineered Search & Archive Features: Built a custom digitized newspaper archive book-view experience and scaled platform search capabilities using Apache Solr.

  Stack

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