Gregor Zupan
Verified Expert in Engineering
Solutions Architect and Cloud Developer
Medvode, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Toptal member since September 16, 2019
Gregor is a knowledgeable and driven IT architect and consultant with several years of experience leading a combination of in-house and outsourced technical teams. He's particularly skilled at communicating with customers regarding technical solutions—ultimately providing integrated solutions to both parties. Gregor is also well-versed in software and solution architecture, cloud computing, and programming in general.
Portfolio
Experience
- Development - 15 years
- Software Architecture - 12 years
- Cloud Computing - 9 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 9 years
- Microservices Architecture - 5 years
- DevOps - 5 years
- AWS DevOps - 5 years
- Serverless Architecture - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Git, Unix, Linux
The most amazing...
...project was setting up the cloud infrastructure for a large client with 10,000 concurrent users calling several very resource consuming APIs in various stacks.
Work Experience
CTO | Founder | IT Consultant
Dunbit
- Worked as an independent solution and software architect focusing on the design and architecture of modern, high-available, and scalable solutions in the cloud.
- Helped customers to start performing infrastructure as code (IaC) and speed up their software development lifecycle.
- Helped customers to implement CI/CD for their products.
Director of Engineering
SafeSize
- Led the developers' team, the innovation team, and the ICT team.
- Coordinated development efforts with external outsourced teams.
- Prepared a product roadmap and plans with the management team.
- Collaborated with large customers to find the best integration solution.
- Led cross-functional teams through the entire SDLC for our product.
Lead Software Architect
SafeSize
- Created the product design and architecture of Safesize's back-end solution. Implemented the back end together with my colleagues.
- Communicated and coordinated with the client's technical and implementation teams.
- Provided performance tune and optimization based on the growth of the company and customer base.
Product Development Manager
SafeSize
- Led an in-house development team responsible to implement our product.
- Coordinated the development efforts with external outsourced teams.
- Communicated and coordinated with the client's technical and implementation teams.
- Worked with the presales teams, prepare offers, and define customer approach strategy.
Technical Consultant | Presales Specialist
Hermes Softlab
- Worked as a presales specialist and found the best solution for clients.
- Led the implementation team for a client.
Technical Lead
Hermes Softlab
- Oversaw a team of developers in the international team.
- Investigated and wrote specifications about new and updated product features.
- Served as part of a core team of architects and technical leads where we were reviewing each other's feature specs.
- Programmed the proof of concepts; started using Java and worked also a lot with the Oracle database.
Software Engineer
Hermes Softlab
- Wrote programming in the following languages C, C++, ShellScript, and Perl.
- Developed integrations for SAP, Web Servers (IIS, Apache, and so on) with our product.
- Served an agent as part an international team working on HP OpenView product; learned a great deal about Unix (HP-UX, Solaris, Aix, Sinix, Dynix, and so on) and Linux (Red Hat, Debian) operating systems.
Experience
IaC and Deployment Pipeline
Iac and ETL
Architecture and Cost Estimation for AWS Image Recognition Project
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (Intelligent Systems)
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering - Ljubljana, Slovenia
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Amazon Rekognition, Node.js
Tools
Amazon Cognito, Terraform, Git, AWS IAM, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Puppet
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Oracle, Cloud Native, Unix, Docker, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Languages
Java, Go, SQL, C, C++, JavaScript, Python 3, Python, Bash, Perl
Frameworks
Serverless Framework
Paradigms
Microservices Architecture, REST, Serverless Architecture, Microservices, ETL, Agile, DevOps, ETL Implementation & Design
Storage
MySQL, NoSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL 10, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, Microsoft SQL Server
Other
Cloud Computing, Software Architecture, Serverless, Development, Architecture, API Gateways, AWS DevOps
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