Summary
Tomaz Lovrec is a seasoned software leader with 12+ years of experience in backend development, DevOps, and distributed systems. He currently serves as Lead Software Engineer at Form3, where he leads a team building a high-availability, high-traffic multi-payment gateway using Go, Docker, Kubernetes, CockroachDB, NATS and Flux. He previously shaped Form3's payment gateway as Senior Software Engineer, delivering scalable microservice-based solutions. His career spans roles at ACL Advanced Commerce Labs and Viberate, with hands-on work across PHP backends, Linux/BSD administration, and cloud-native tooling, reflecting a strong blend of development and operations. Based in Tišina, Slovenia, Tomaz combines technical depth with leadership, driving reliable, maintainable systems and mentoring teams to operate at scale.
12 years of coding experience