Boštjan Jerko
Teacher Of Visual Gestural Communication
Slovenia
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Top SchoolBoštjan Jerko is a multidisciplinary technologist and educator with 14 years of professional experience, combining roles as a CEO-founder, CTO, and part-time university lecturer in visual gestural communication and accessibility. Trained as an MSc in Electrotechnics from the University of Ljubljana, he bridges engineering rigor with human-centered sign language interpretation and accessibility work across faculties in Slovenia. As owner of Japina d.o.o. and CTO at Mauu he leads product and technical strategy while maintaining hands-on development experience, including front-end contributions to the open-source Booktype editor. His career began in enterprise IT at Societe Generale, giving him a grounding in large-scale systems that complements his startup and academic ventures. Known for translating complex technical constraints into accessible, usable solutions, he uniquely blends signal-processing style thinking from electrotechnics with the nuanced visual language of sign interpretation. Based in Slovenia, he focuses on making digital and educational experiences more inclusive through technology, research, and teaching.
14 years of coding experience
SEŠOŠ Milana ŠuštaršičaMSc., Electrotehnics, MSc., Electrotehnics at University of LjubljanaOŠ Mirana Jarca
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Github Skills (7)
aloha10
javascript10
editor10
django10
python9
html9
css8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
booktype/Booktype
Sep 2013 - Aug 2014
Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:61 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Boštjan primarily contributed to the development of the Booktype platform, focusing on features within the editor and front-end user interface. Their commits reveal the implementation of a word count plugin within the Aloha editor, along with modifications to the menu and templates. Further contributions included adding support for character counts with spaces and integrating these counts for the entire book, indicating a focus on improving the editing and content analysis capabilities of the platform. Also, included changes to the group and people pages.
booktypepythondjangojavascriptebooks
japina/tft_m0_lib
May 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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