Resume
Experience & Education
A track record of building products, teams, and companies.
Experience
Co-Founder & CTO
TradeLocker
Remote / Croatia · Sep 2022 - Present
- Leading technology and engineering for a trading platform used by millions of traders across 100+ brokers and prop firms.
- Scaled the company from 0 to 80+ employees, building the team, culture, and processes from the ground up.
- Architected the platform's core infrastructure for real-time trade execution, market data streaming, and multi-broker integration.
- Established reliability, security, and DevOps practices to support high-availability financial operations.
Co-Founder & CTO
MochaLabs
Croatia · 2019 - Sep 2022
- Co-founded a startup incubator that created multiple products across fintech, gaming, and consumer verticals.
- Led architecture decisions, product execution, hiring, and team mentoring across all ventures.
- Built the platform that was later acquired by and evolved into TradeLocker.
- Developed engineering best practices and reusable infrastructure patterns used across portfolio companies.
Co-Founder & Engineering Lead
Sportening
Croatia · 2019 - 2021
- Built and led the engineering team from 0 to 30+ engineers for a sports community platform that grew to 500K+ users.
- Designed and implemented a microservices architecture using Elixir, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
- Established infrastructure practices with Terraform, Grafana, and Prometheus for monitoring and observability.
- Drove technical decisions around scalability, performance, and developer experience.
Co-Founder & CTO
Vibby
Croatia / USA · 2013 - 2019
- Built a video collaboration and annotation platform from concept to production.
- Led all product and engineering efforts, growing the platform's user base and feature set.
- Company was successfully acquired in late 2019.
VP Technology Innovation
CIAL Dun & Bradstreet
USA · 2016 - 2017
- Developed Novo Protocol, a blockchain-based marketplace for commercial data.
- Built on Ethereum smart contracts with a Node/Express/React stack.
- Explored innovative applications of distributed ledger technology for B2B data exchange.
Software Engineering Intern
Microsoft
Redmond, WA · 2012
- Contributed to engineering projects within Microsoft's product teams.
- Gained experience in large-scale software development practices and enterprise engineering culture.
Software Engineering Intern
Apple
Cupertino, CA · 2011
- Worked on engineering projects at Apple's headquarters.
- Developed software following Apple's rigorous quality and design standards.
Software Engineering Intern
Ericsson
Croatia · 2010
- Contributed to telecommunications software development.
- Gained foundational experience in network systems and enterprise software engineering.
Education
MSc in Computer Science
University of Zagreb
BSc in Computer Science
University of Zagreb
Publications
HoloPair: Threats and Defenses for Mobile AR Systems
Research on security threats and defense mechanisms for mobile augmented reality systems.