Fran Arbanas
Owner At Arbatron
Zagreb, Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolFran Arbanas is a DevOps-focused software engineer and founder based in Zagreb with eight years of experience building cloud-native systems and backend services. As owner of Arbatron and former Go engineer at Axilis, he blends hands-on Go/Rust development with strong Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS expertise to deliver reliable infrastructure and tooling. He has a track record of practical improvements in privacy-focused open-source projects like Nym—contributing CLI features and CosmWasm contract generators—showing comfort with distributed systems and crypto-adjacent tooling. Fran holds a Computer Science degree from FER and has progressed from junior roles into engineering and leadership positions, combining academic depth with production experience. Colleagues know him for pragmatic refactors, attention to maintainability, and shipping small but impactful backend and DevOps improvements. He often bridges the gap between systems engineering and developer ergonomics, favoring durable solutions over quick fixes.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at FERV. Gimnazija, Zagreb
Github Skills (8)
decentralization10
smart-contracts10
command-line-interface10
rust10
cosmwasm10
cli10
command-line10
json-serialization9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nymtech/nym
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Nym provides strong network-level privacy against sophisticated end-to-end attackers, and anonymous transactions using blinded, re-randomizable, decentralized credentials.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:93 releases, 17 reviews, 87 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Fran primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the Nym network project, particularly contributing to the `nym-cli` tool. Their work included refactoring commands to support multiple tiers and generating instantiate messages for CosmWasm smart contracts, specifically for mixnodes and vesting contracts. They also added debug messages, fixed string escaping issues, and made import cleanup and formatting changes to improve code maintainability. Furthermore, they added support for other contract generators such as multisig, and coconut-dkg
decentralizationend-to-endprivacy-enhancing-technologiesprivacysecurity
farbanas/go-monit
Apr 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
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