Fran Hrženjak
Senior Software Developer at Toptal
Croatia
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Top SchoolFran Hrženjak is a Senior Software Developer with 12 years of experience building web, desktop, embedded, and electronics-integrated applications from Croatia, currently freelancing through Toptal and independent engagements. He specializes in Django/Python back-end work—evidenced by contributions that refactored and improved pagination and DRY patterns in the djangocms-blog project—while also shipping iOS web apps, WordPress sites, and even software for tracking real asteroids. A founder-turned-senior engineer, he blends startup pragmatism with consulting rigor, having led small teams as a CTO and launched a startup early in his career. His background in physics and music suggests a methodical, creative approach to problem solving and systems design.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Vladimir Prelog Science Schoolhigh school level, Piano, high school level, Piano at ZaGlaRaPhysics, Physics at Faculty of Science of University of Zagreb
English, Croatian
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Github Skills (15)
listview10
blogpost10
android-listview10
blogger10
blogspot10
python10
django10
timestamp9
django-forms9
django-admin9
django-models6
php6
variadic-functions6
tuples6
unicode6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
nephila/djangocms-blog
May 2016 - May 2016
django CMS blog application - Support for multilingual posts, placeholders, social network meta tags and configurable apphooks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Fran primarily focused on improving the `djangocms-blog` application's backend logic, specifically within the views.py file. Their contributions involved refactoring the code, creating a `BaseBlogListView` class, streamlining the views by introducing DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principles and the pagination settings, and fixing the pagination settings to ensure consistent behavior across the blog views. In addition, they also performed some cosmetic adjustments to the class order and fixed a pagination setting.
cmspythonmetatagsdjangometa
astrohr/dagor_tca
Feb 2015 - Mar 2025
Telescope control application, and stuff
Contributions:73 pushes, 11 branches, 10 tags in 10 years 2 months
telescope-controltelescope
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