Ogrodje

Ogrodje is a Slovenian tech/dev podcast and a community. Our mission is to share the experience, deepen the knowledge and empower the technology enthusiast and professionals.

We started Ogrodje with the idea to give something back and help elevate the quality and know-how about the technology in the region.

In November 2022, Ogrodje became the number 1. tech podcast in the region on Apple Podcasts.

Founder and host

OPALAB d.o.o.

OPALAB is a niche consulting company specialising in deep tech and web technologies. We help companies around the globe build and scale their online products and services. We use modern technologies and agile principles. We specialise in Scala, JavaScript, Python and Ruby.

Founder

GlobalWebIndex

GlobalWebIndex is a market research company that provides audience profiling data across 44 countries to the world’s largest brands, marketing agencies and media organisations. 

We maintain a global panel of more than 22 million connected consumers which we leverage to create 20,000 data points on the behaviours of internet users around the world.

My role is to build and lead the development of audience profiling and market research products of the future, now!

Engineering Lead

As Engineering Manager and Architect at GlobalWebIndex, my main responsibility is to lead the team and build the technology that makes Pollpass. 

Pollpass is distributed real-time engine and platform for modern market research. It is capable of surveying thousands of respondents globally and feed the information into GlobalWebIndex its partners and clients.

GlobalWebIndex is a market research company that provides audience profiling data across 44 countries to the world’s largest brands, marketing agencies and media organisations. 

At GlobalWebIndex we maintain a global panel of more than 22+ million connected consumers which we leverage to create 20,000 data points on the behaviours of internet users around the world.

Engineering Manager / Software Architect

Senior Web Developer

Databox.com

Databox is a mobile-first business analytics platform built to help you understand what's going on with your business. You can connect your cloud data sources, spreadsheets, databases and custom integrations to organize all of your business KPIs in one place. Create your own unique mobile dashboards, with many supported visualization types (line, bar, pie charts, funnels, tables, ...), present your data on your office TV, and collaborate and discuss around your metrics with others via Slack.

While working for Databox I was responsible for Databox Connect Platform; built with Node.js a RethinkDB. Bundled with Docker and Swarm; hosted on AWS.

I'm also the author of Databox SDKs for Ruby, Python and Go and co-author of SDKs for Java and PHP.

- Databox iOS app - https://itunes.apple.com/si/app/databox-analytics/id940584421
- Databox Android app - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.databox
- Databox SDKs - https://developers.databox.com

Senior Software Engineer

SNAGR

SNAGR is music artists search engine. It seeks on 12+ different streaming/video/music sites for artists. The sites are searched in parallel and results are on-the-fly combined, ranked and sorted to give user readable and understandable overview. SNAGR was acquired by WbSrch.com in March 2016 and is now known as musicsrch.com.

MUBI

MUBI is an online cinema and social network that gives the latest news on films and awards from all around the world. I've joined MUBI as a freelance contractor. During my time with MUBI I've implemented ElasticSearch, helped with recommendation engine, scheduler, API and 3rd party integrations.

Fika, Inc.

Fika is mobile startup and app founded by Robert Farazin (Y-Combinator, Techstars) in 2013. Fika provides simple, fast and pretty way to organise casual events with your friends. My role as CTO was to build and lead a team of  mobile developers while working on architecture and backend. Stack was Ruby / Rails, Android, iOS, Scrum and CI.

Fika for Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wefika
Fika for iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/si/app/fika/id771179360?mt=8
Fika on Web - http://www.wefika.com

D.Labs

D.Labs is outsourcing company focused on building great products and services for UK startups. I've built and lead team of professional Ruby / Rails and JavaScript developers.

Team Lead and Ruby Senior Developer

mexan AG

Mexan GmbH is Swiss based company providing consulting and development services to Swiss clients. During my time with Mexan I was building Vendery Shopping Platform and some other Ruby / PHP projects.

Senior Ruby Developer

Jabolko.org

- Complete rewrite of Jabolko.org from Rails 2.x to Rails 3.x.
- Implementation of IndexTank search engine.
- Optimization and implementation of new functionalities.
- Implementing new functionalities and fixing bugs.
- Article suggestion system implementation

Senior Ruby Developer and Technical consultant

Oto Brglez is a seasoned software engineer, manager, and architect with 20+ years of experience in modern front-end and back-end development. He's a prominent figure in the Slovenian tech community, delivering high-quality software solutions and staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends. Oto is an excellent communicator, team player, and mentor with a passion for technology. He hosts the Ogrodje podcast, sharing his insights and expertise. If you need a top-performing software professional to build your team and deliver outstanding results, Oto Brglez is your ideal candidate.

Oto Brglez

BICERO Ltd.

Founder & director of management consultant company performing the following services:
- E-learning projects and learning content development (http://elearning.bicero.com)
- EU projects consulting, applications, workshops, coordination, networking, evaluation, partnership.
- Business Process Management (BPM) and Information Technology related projects (e.g. Supreme court of RS, various IT companies in Slo. and EU)
- BPM Seminars & workshops and on-line learning (small groups, public and in-company, one-on-one coaching), e.g. Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Interior, private companies, open workshops
- business & IT development

www.bicero.com | www.bicero.si

Founder, director

BNI Mozaik - Slovenija

Learning Coordinator

DOBA Faculty of Applied Business and Social Studies Maribor

Assistant professor for these on-line courses:
- Information technologies and systems in Smart Cities
- Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence
- IT supported business management course (2nd level of Bologna) for SLO, HR, SRB and international students.

Past:
- Business Informatics (1nd level Bologna)

Research:
- process management in companies and HEIs, e-learning

Other:
- process improvement (e.g. re-design of the content and document management processes)
- supervisor for Masters degree thesis

I've developed several new MSc. courses: CRM (Customer Relationship Management in digital age), Information technology for Smart cities

Asst. prof.

LANCom d.o.o.

Managing people, information technology related projects & processes, such as:

- Reingeneered of the sales/project management/services process and implementated/customized  CRM system (Microsoft CRM 4.0)
- ICT consulting for the clients (e.g. Analysis of IT bottlenecks in Valdoltra hospital) - greatly improved responsiveness of their IT system
- operational management of ICT related projects (e.g. Virtual IT infastructure setup at Farmland and Forest fund of RS)
- Business Process Management consulting to the clients and internal (e.g. Business Process Design at at Farmland and Forest fund of RS for all of their core processes )
- Managed a group of 12 system engineers 
- Organized several ICT related events (Days of Virtualization & cloud computing) for 40+ IT experts

Head of ICT solutions engineering

- established and managed local Prometric exam centre
- managed Microsoft Educational Centre and partnership agreements - raised MS statuses to the next level
- organized IT related seminars, workshops and trainings
- performed business process analysis, consulting and trainings
- quality management and internal auditor for ISO9001:2000 - all audits passed successfully
- project management

Head of IT Educational Center

University of Maribor

Research/teaching/projects:
Research:
-Business process modelling, formal/informal methods, BPMN, writing articles for journals and conferences.
-Co-author of "2008 BPM & Workflow Handbook" -(http://www.futstrat.com/books/handbook08.php)

Teaching:
-teaching assistant for courses: Standards and Quality, Organization and management of software projects, Information technology in media
-development of learning accesories - www.itposter.net

Projects:
-quality manager for various EU projects 
-configuration management (CVS, SubVersion)
-business process reingeneering

Teaching assistant

Research/teaching/projects:
Research: 
-Business process modelling, formal/informal methods, BPMN, writing articles for journals and conferences.
-Co-author of a workbook: Unified Methodology for Quality Systems Implementation

Teaching:
-teaching assistant for courses: Standards and Quality, Project Management, Organization and management of software projects, Multimedia 2, Programming.

Projects:
-various EU projects
-system, process and data analysis for government institute
-business process reingeneering for large telecom company
-software development (portals, java, struts, html, expresso framework, mysql)
-information portal for quality - developer, editor, maintainer
-web project environment - development
-linux servers maintenance, web sites maintenance
-configuration, version and quality management
-various seminars and workshops (BPM, software development)
-conference organization

Researcher

CIT - Center of Information Technology

-Designing and programming WEB applications and portals www.IPQ.si (UML, Java, Expresso, MySQL, Tomcat)
-Editor of the Information Quality Portal (IPQ.si)

Software architect

Hermes

-source code inspections, hardening and optimizations(C++)

Software developer

- web site development and maintenance, practical lectures of computer science courses
-programming in Java, using IBM Visual Age, POET Object Oriented database and GOF design patterns
-Lotus Notes applications programming

IT and teaching support

I am managing a company that upskilled/certified more than 1000 people and built 20+ online courses. Our learners won new projects, landed new jobs, switched careers or got promotions. Helped some major organizations to improve their processes.
 
My company provides courses and coaching programmes for managers and analysts: http://www.bicero.com/training-services (all courses are ECQA accredited)

Specialties: 
- Making people to do things on time and within budget (Project management for EU funded projects). 
- Making your operations smooth/er (Business Process Analysis & reengineering). 
- Distributing knowledge (Lecturing and coaching - live and online, http://elearning.bicero.com ) - over 1000 participants of our courses
- Finding the right tools for your problems (Information technology consulting)

We are offering ECQA courses (live and on-line), exams and certifications (http://www.bicero.com/training-services): 
-EU project manager
-Business Process Management (BPM), foundation and advanced level & for HEI
-Social Responsibility Management
-Sustainability Leadership

I am project manager, business process analyst and IT enthusiast, lecturer and online course designer with 20+ years of experiences from academic and real world environment. I enjoy educating people/companies about IT technology and optimize their business processes.
My goal is to make people's lives (work) easier, cheaper, more comfortable and to crack some difficult IT related problems along the way.

Is this too LinkedIn-ish? Probably not, because it didn't bring me a single lead ;)
More real/authentic/goofy version of me: https://mastodon.social/@po3mah

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