Gal Jakič
Community Manager at Apillon ⧓
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Top SchoolGal Jakič is a seasoned community and product leader with 10 years of experience blending technical delivery, stakeholder communication, and community engagement from Ljubljana, Slovenia. As founder of We Wow Web and current Community Manager at Apillon, he combines hands-on web development (HTML, CSS, WordPress, Laravel, PHP) with product and project management to turn ideas into MVPs and scalable offerings. His roles as CTO and Platform Delivery Lead at Hiveterminal and product manager at Briefd demonstrate a knack for coordinating cross-functional teams, integrations, and vendor relationships while driving internal development capabilities. An active technical communicator, he contributes to popular open-source documentation like Livewire/docs—improving clarity and testing guidance—showing attention to developer experience often overlooked in product roles. He also brings a distinctive background as a three-time Paralympian and adaptive sports organizer, giving him resilience, project leadership under pressure, and a strong commitment to inclusive community building. Practical, product-focused, and community-first, Gal excels at turning technical complexity into clear value for users and stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Kinesiology, Kinesiology at University of LjubljanaHigh School Graduate, High School Graduate at Gimnazija Vič Ljubljana
English, German, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
livewire10
documentation10
testing9
openpyxl6
html6
python6
css4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
livewire/docs
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Livewire documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Gal primarily contributed to the Livewire documentation repository. Their commits focused on fixing typos, clarifying explanations, and correcting examples within the documentation files. The user also made changes to improve the accuracy and clarity of the testing section. These updates ensure the documentation provides accurate information and effective guidance for users of the Livewire framework.
laravellivewire
wewowweb/laravel-shared-hosting
May 2019 - Mar 2020
Laravel package that makes migrating between dev environment and shared hosting server easier.
Contributions:8 releases, 21 commits, 8 PRs in 9 months
hostingdevphpdev-environmentshared-hosting
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