Anže Pečar
Founding Engineer at Anže Pečar, s.p.
Slovenia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAnže Pečar is a founding engineer and seasoned software professional with 15 years’ experience building backend systems, developer tools, and reliable production services. Based in Slovenia, he blends a pragmatic, problem-first mindset—often preferring design or process solutions before reaching for code—with hands-on Python and backend engineering when needed. He has driven engineering work at startups and scale-stage teams (including Staff Engineer at Zenput) and consults through his own practice, demonstrating both technical leadership and entrepreneurial grit. Anže is an active open-source contributor, improving projects like the popular pgcli Postgres CLI and the API toolkit apistar by shipping tests, bug fixes, and usability enhancements. Outside work he balances engineering with surfing, reflecting a practical curiosity and appetite for new challenges.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Informatics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Informatics at University of Ljubljana
English
Github Skills (14)
databases10
api10
postgresql10
rest10
python10
database10
testing10
pytest9
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
configuration-management8
flask8
flask-ask8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dbcli/pgcli
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Anže contributed to the PostgreSQL CLI tool, pgcli, by adding features related to row limits and testing functionality. They implemented new tests for the row limit parameter and refactored existing tests. The user also modified the codebase to enable the use of a configuration file for row limit settings and fixed minor code issues, improving the overall functionality of the CLI.
pythonpsqlautocompletiondatabasepostgres
encode/apistar
May 2017 - May 2017
The Web API toolkit. 🛠
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Anže primarily contributed to the `apistar` project by addressing bugs and improving the application's functionality. Their work involved fixing flake8 warnings and resolving a URL unquoting issue within the `TestClient` and routing logic. Furthermore, they added test cases to ensure proper URL handling and string parameter parsing. These changes directly addressed issues related to URL processing and testing, thereby contributing to the overall stability and correctness of the API toolkit.
apiredocpythonjavascriptapi-documentation
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