Dean Gostiša
Principal Engineer at COMCODE d.o.o.
Slovenia
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Top SchoolDean Gostiša is a Principal Engineer based in Slovenia with 12 years of experience building cloud-native backend systems, specializing in Java on Google App Engine, BigQuery, and noSQL datastores. He combines hands-on development (PHP, Java, MySQL) with architecture for high-availability REST services across Google Cloud and AWS, and has led technical teams as CTO and CEO of his own company. His work spans big data and ML/AI projects, including production-facing Facebook bot logic and BigQuery-driven analytics. Dean has deep operational experience with Redis, Aerospike, and cloud infrastructure components (S3, Elastic Beanstalk, EC2), enabling reliable, scalable services. A practical polyglot, he blends startup agility with enterprise-grade patterns learned across roles from lead backend engineer to principal. Notably, he often pairs classical backend engineering with machine learning integrations, turning data insights into automated service behaviors.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
5. Gymnasium, 5. Gymnasium at Gimnazija VičBachelor's degree Computer and Information Sciences Computer Software, Bachelor's degree Computer and Information Sciences Computer Software at University of LjubljanaCisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA1), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA1) at Cisco Networking AcademyPrimary School, Primary School at Osnovna šola Log-Dragomer
English, Slovenian, Croatian, German
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Github Skills (63)
google-cloud-datastore8
php-class7
api-client7
object-mapper7
aerospike6
httpwebrequest6
api6
http6
sms6
google-app-engine6
java6
google-workspace6
nodejs-cli6
mapper5
cdktf5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dincek/PHPNodeJS
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:19 commits in 1 day
php-classnode-jsphpjavascriptphp-wrapper
Spikeify/spikeify
Apr 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:49 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
aerospikejavaobject-mappermapper
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