Summary
Andrej Završnik is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO from Slovenia with 11+ years of professional experience building scalable backends, Big Data/noSQL solutions, and financial systems. He combines hands-on engineering in Java, Kotlin and .NET with product-minded architecture — from ISO messaging for payments to high-throughput advertising platforms and e-commerce migrations. As founder of Zandero and former senior engineer at NiceHash, CoreMatrix and Iddiction, he repeatedly delivers performance and scalability improvements and leads platform transitions (e.g., WooCommerce to Shopify). Known for favoring existing tools over reinvention, he blends deep system design, database expertise and usability sensibility to solve complex problems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Informatics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Informatics at University of Maribor
II Gymnasium, Maribor
German, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, English