Dražen Odobašić
Owner at QUATERNION.CO
Croatia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDražen Odobašić is a seasoned Python and JavaScript engineer with 17 years of experience who runs QUATERNION.CO as an owner and founder, blending hands-on full-stack development with research-led product thinking. His background in geoinformatics and long tenure at the University of Zagreb inform a specialty in spatial databases and PostGIS, and he has contributed full-stack internationalization and database fixes to the high-impact HOT OSM Tasking Manager project. Comfortable across Dockerized deployments, Django/Flask backends and Express.js frontends, he pairs systems-level understanding with a pragmatic focus on collaboration and knowledge sharing. A frequent traveler and connector, he values meeting new people and bringing diverse development methodologies into practical projects.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
dipl. ing., geoinformatics, dipl. ing., geoinformatics at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u Zagrebu
English, German
Github Skills (11)
openstreetmap10
internationalization10
python10
translation10
postgresql9
javascript8
css7
transifex7
git6
alembic6
testing5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2
May 2014 - Dec 2015
Designed and built for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team collaborative emergency/disaster mapping, the OSM Tasking Manager 2.0 divides an area into individual squares that can be rapidly mapped by thousands of volunteers.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:99 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Dražen made various contributions to the OSM Tasking Manager 2.0, focusing on both backend and frontend aspects. They implemented i18n (internationalization) features, including enabling plural form translations and updating templates for language support. Additionally, the user made changes to the build process by adding the transifex-client and pyramid-exclog configuration, and also addressed issues related to database interactions, as well as updates to CSS and JS files.
individualgeospatialnominatimvolunteersdisaster
candela-it/sunlumo
Dec 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:242 commits, 34 PRs, 40 pushes in 9 months
djangopythonqgis
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