Summary
Dejan Mauer is an independent biometric expert and co-owner with over two decades of experience delivering large-scale national and international identity, smart card, and AFIS projects. He combines hands-on software development and architecture with project leadership, having led biometric passport, visa enrolment, and digital tachograph rollouts across multiple countries. Comfortable across cloud, web, mobile and smartcard/NFC platforms, he bridges technical execution and stakeholder-facing program management as CTO and project manager. At eu-LISA he managed migration of 65+ million fingerprint records and helped generate massive synthetic biometric test databases, showing depth in both operational and data engineering challenges. A serial problem-solver and inventor, he has also guided loyalty and banking transformations for major Slovenian enterprises while running a small craft brewery—illustrating entrepreneurial curiosity outside tech. Based in Celje, Slovenia, he mentors teams to turn complex, security-sensitive requirements into auditable, production-grade systems.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of Ljubljana
Computer Science, Computer Science at SERŠ Velenje
English, croatian, serbian