Aleš Kovan
Founder at RedFragment
Poland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAleš Kovan is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack web applications, leading engineering teams, and scaling startups from product to production. He co-founded and architected core systems at Plecto, where he led a 12-person engineering organization and introduced CI/CD, security, and incident practices, and later ran his own consulting firm, RedFragment. Technically grounded in Django and Python, Aleš is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like django CMS, django-shop and Spirit, where his work spans backend features, editor integration, e-commerce logic and media embedding. He combines hands-on coding with product-minded UX design—having built game communities and commerce platforms for titles that sold millions—and has a track record of turning pragmatic engineering decisions into reliable, maintainable services. Based in Poland, he brings entrepreneurial grit, cross-disciplinary design sensibility, and deep experience shipping web and mobile services for SMEs and startups.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Aarhus UniversityBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Primorska
English, Slovenian, Italian
Github Skills (17)
markdown10
cms10
python10
ecommerce10
django10
django-cms10
ckeditor10
markdown-it10
forum10
database-migrations9
database-migration9
html8
webpages8
testing8
javascript7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
awesto/django-shop
Sep 2012 - Nov 2013
A Django based shop system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Aleš primarily contributed to the Django-based e-commerce shop system, making various changes to the core functionality. Their work involved updating the CHANGELOG, fixing bugs in the price format filter, adding cart references to orders, and refactoring order status logic. They also added and modified admin functionalities and implemented tests related to order cleanups.
pythondjango-shopdjangoe-commerceshop
nitely/Spirit
Dec 2015 - Jan 2017
Spirit is a modern Python/Django forum
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 11 PRs, 41 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Aleš primarily contributed to improving the functionality and features of the Django-based forum application. Their work included adding features to the user profile page, such as comment and topic counts, and implementing mechanisms for tracking likes. They also addressed YouTube embed functionality by adding support for timestamps and integrating gfycat embeds. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to support alternative file storage backends for comment images.
spiritdjango-frameworkpythondjangoforum
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