Dejan Kos
Senior Software Engineer at Gradle Inc.
Grad Pula, Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolDejan Kos is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and building high-performance distributed backend services in Kotlin, Java, and Rust. Currently at Gradle, he focuses on optimizing build performance and caching, contributing to the widely used gradle/gradle project and improving Gradle Enterprise plugin integrations. He has a strong track record of leading and growing engineering teams, establishing development processes, and mentoring team leaders from his time at Infobip and Autodesk. His work spans fault-tolerant, low-latency systems, custom distributed caches, and automated deployment and observability for multi-datacenter platforms. Known for blending hands-on coding with process design, he brings both deep technical craft and pragmatic team-level practices to production-scale problems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Polytechnic of Rijeka
English, Italian, Croatian
Github Skills (11)
javas10
caching10
build-tools10
gradlew10
build-automation10
java10
gradle10
concurrency9
devops7
kotlin6
groovy6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gradle/gradle
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Adaptable, fast automation for all
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 1 commit, 4 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dejan primarily focused on enhancing the build cache functionality within the Gradle project. Their contributions included updates to the Gradle Enterprise plugin, integration of the NextGen build cache, and related refactoring and cleanup tasks. They also introduced and modified configurations for the build cache, including dependency updates and incorporating configurable executors for asynchronous operations. This work suggests a focus on optimizing build performance and automating caching processes.
pythongradlegroovyautomationjava
dejankos/jdoctest
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Support for running documentation code examples
Contributions:46 commits, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 27 days
dynamic-compilerkotlinjavadocjavacode-documentation
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