Resume
Experience & Education
Where I've worked and what I've built along the way.
Experience
Co-Founder & CTO
TradeLocker
Remote / Croatia · Sep 2022 - Present
- Run technology and engineering for a trading platform used by millions of traders across 100+ brokers and prop firms.
- Grew the company from 0 to 80+ people, hiring the team and setting up how we work.
- Designed the core infrastructure for real-time trade execution, market data streaming, and multi-broker integration.
- Built out reliability, security, and DevOps practices for high-availability financial operations.
Co-Founder & CTO
MochaLabs
Croatia · 2019 - Sep 2022
- Co-founded a startup incubator that built products across fintech, gaming, and consumer.
- Owned architecture decisions, product execution, hiring, and mentoring across all ventures.
- Built the platform that later became TradeLocker.
- Created shared engineering practices and infrastructure used across all portfolio companies.
Co-Founder & Engineering Lead
Sportening
Croatia · 2019 - 2021
- Hired and led the engineering team from 0 to 30+ for a sports community platform that hit 500K+ users.
- Built a microservices architecture on Elixir, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
- Set up infrastructure with Terraform, Grafana, and Prometheus for monitoring and observability.
- Made the key technical calls on scalability, performance, and developer experience.
Co-Founder & CTO
Vibby
Croatia / USA · 2013 - 2019
- Built a video collaboration and annotation platform from scratch to production.
- Ran product and engineering, grew the user base and shipped new features.
- Company was acquired in late 2019.
VP Technology Innovation
CIAL Dun & Bradstreet
USA · 2016 - 2017
- Built Novo Protocol, a blockchain-based marketplace for commercial data.
- Ethereum smart contracts with a Node/Express/React stack.
- Applied distributed ledger technology to B2B data exchange use cases.
Software Engineering Intern
Microsoft
Redmond, WA · 2012
- Worked on engineering projects within Microsoft's product teams.
- Got hands-on experience with large-scale software development and enterprise engineering.
Software Engineering Intern
Apple
Cupertino, CA · 2011
- Engineering internship at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino.
- Wrote software under Apple's quality and design standards.
Software Engineering Intern
Ericsson
Croatia · 2010
- Worked on telecommunications software.
- First real exposure to 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.