Summary
Danko Komlen is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale, data-driven and distributed systems across payments, security, and cloud infrastructure. He has driven critical projects at Stripe (Tax and Identity) and AWS (Lambda, Security Intelligence), blending backend engineering in Java/Scala/Go/Python with big-data pipelines and diagnostics. Now based in Croatia, he combines hands-on implementation with mentorship and advisory roles, recently joining Feather Labs and advising Sumori. His academic background spans an MSc in Evolutionary Computing and ML/Stats micromasters from MIT, reflecting a continual investment in advanced analytics and machine learning. Notably, he has a track record of converting complex domain rules (tax, security) into reliable, scalable systems and often operates at the intersection of data, reliability, and product shipping.
12 years of coding experience