Faris Zacina
Mentor at Techstars
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Summary
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Top SchoolFaris Zacina is a founder-operator and mentor with 11+ years of hands-on engineering experience and a decade leading product and scaling efforts across startups and enterprises. As Co-Founder and CEO of Ministry of Programming he bootstrapped the company to FT1000 recognition, driving 800%+ early revenue growth, €50M+ in revenue and scaling teams north of 150–200 people through purely organic means. He combines deep technical chops (custom audio engines, distributed SOA, cloud infrastructure) with product and design instincts—having stepped in as VP/CTO for clients like Werlabs to launch markets in Sweden, the UK and Norway. An active angel investor with €1.5M+ deployed, Faris is passionate about behavioral design, biohacking and finance, and is known for turning failure into rapid learning cycles. Based in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he mentors founders at Techstars and helps build lasting technical teams and products that create substantial new wealth.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Faculty of Information Technologies, University "Džemal Bijedić" in MostarTreca GimnazijaMCTS Visual Studio - Team Foundation Server, MCTS Visual Studio - Team Foundation Server at Microsoft Education
English, Italian, Bosnian, German, French
Stackoverflow
14,204reputation
1.5mreached
198answers
40questions
roslyn
top-5%
react-router
top-5%
javascript
top-1%
json
top-5%
recursion
top-1%
Github Skills (28)
javascript10
recursion10
json9
asp-net-mvc9
roslyn9
asp-net9
nodejs9
react9
react-router9
toaster8
toastr7
mongodb6
notification6
entity-framework6
base646
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ministryofprogramming/javascript
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 4 months
cssjavascriptjavascript-stylestyle-guideconsistency
fariszacina/fibrous
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
techniquesplatformsbenchmarklanguagescontrast
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