GregorMenih

Hi, my name is Gregor and I’m
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I’m based in Maribor, Slovenia, but that doesn’t limit my digital reach. I enjoy working with people and companies from all over the world and I’m always open to new opportunities to expand my horizons. Through my career I’ve worn many hats, always embracing my role to the fullest - proving my ability to adapt and learn. I love building tools and products that empower others, working with passionate and driven people.

To find out about my projects and the specific technologies that I work with, please check out my GitHub, or my LinkedIn profile.

Experience

  • Povio Inc

    1 year2 months

    • Senior software engineerMar 2022 - Present

      • Working on a massive media platform serving millions of users every day
      • Support 600+ sites and deploy features to all of them
      • Collect, transform, and analyze data
      • Work on ad tech

    • Lead backend engineerOct 2022 - Feb 2023

      • Designed and developed the backend architecture of an IoT device, providing granular access control, an adaptive scheduling system, and event driven communication with devices

    • Senior software engineerAug 2022 - Oct 2023

      • Brought responsive designs to life for various landing pages using NextJS and Strapi

  • GWI Ltd

    9 months

    • Senior frontend engineerAug 2021 - Apr 2022

      • Maintained and improved the codebase of multiple frontend apps used for a large surveying platform
      • Introduced better code quality standards, and helped coworkers follow industry best practices
      • Optimized bundle sizes, reducing them by over 50% in some cases
      • Worked on a proof-of-concept speech-to-text app, providing better accessibility to our users

  • erento GmbH

    3 years4 months

    • Tech LeadJul 2020 - Jul 2021

      • Reported directly to the CTO, bringing new initiatives and ideas to the company
      • Mentored new team members and helped them get started quicker
      • Built internal tools to improve the development experience, and increase the productivity of our team members while solving repetitive tasks
      • Introduced documentation practices to the team and enforced them, wrote most of our documentation at the time
      • Helped design and develop major features, and wrote technical user stories
      • Defined steps to rewrite massive parts of our legacy codebase into a more modern stack

    • Senior full-stack engineerNov 2019 - Jun 2020

      • Orchestrated deployments and services to our Kubernetes cluster
      • Heavily influenced our ElasticSearch indexing service and wrote core logic for it
      • Maintained high standards of code quality, providing meaningful reviews and advice to my peer

    • Full-stack engineerMar 2018 - Oct 2019

      • Worked on a massive microservices platform encompassing many different languages and frameworks
      • Maintained and developed features for a massive Angular frontend

  • Equaleyes Ltd

    3 years8 months

    • Full-stack engineerFeb 2016 - Oct 2019

      • Led and planned the development of a two-way synchronization platform between our client’s backend and multiple third-party APIs, supporting easy integration of new vendors
      • Led the development of a highly customizable solution to support easy note tracking and sharing for enterprises
      • Developed and maintained a large taxi and shuttle platform
      • Load tested a WebSocket application and scaled it to support many concurrent users

  • ComTrade d.o.o.

    6 months

    • Engineering internJul 2015 - Dec 2015

      • Developed packages for Citrix XenApp

    • Student instructorJun 2015 - Jun 2015

      • Mentored a group of students through a week of EDiT Summer School, where we built a LEGO warehouse robot using AngularJS and JavaEE