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
9 years of employment as a software developer
Statistics and Data Science micromasters, Statistics and Data Science micromasters at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MSc, Computer science, Evolutionary computing, MSc, Computer science, Evolutionary computing at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree, Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree at Udacity
Comprehensive High School Bjelovar
Italian, Spanish