Goran Blažič
Senior Software Engineer Consultant at Freelancer
Maribor, Slovenia
Summary
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RockstarGoran Blažič is a Senior Software Engineer Consultant with 12+ years of hands-on experience building native iOS apps and leading cross-functional teams from prototype to production. He combines deep Swift and Objective-C expertise with systems-level skills (C/C++ and DevOps), having improved build infrastructures such as adding Docker support to the popular raspbian-ua-netinst installer. A pragmatic engineering leader and mentor, Goran has headed mobile teams, acted as CTO-level technical lead, and taught advanced iOS classes while still contributing significant low-level code. He favors native development, continuous improvement, and agile practices, and is comfortable navigating legacy codebases and complex integrations (including porting algorithms from Matlab to C++). Based in Maribor, Slovenia, he blends consultancy versatility from freelance work with sustained product delivery at companies like 24i and FOREO. His background reveals a rare mix of hands-on build/release craftsmanship and people-focused leadership.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Slovenian, English, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (16)
bash10
docker10
dockers10
build-automation10
scripting9
linux8
raspberry-pi7
objective-c6
uiimageview6
embedded6
ios6
textfield6
delegates6
swift6
sys6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
debian-pi/raspbian-ua-netinst
Aug 2014 - May 2018
Raspbian (minimal) unattended netinstaller
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:108 commits, 48 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Goran primarily focused on improving the build process and infrastructure for the Raspbian installer. Their contributions involved adding Docker support for building the installer, including the option to specify a custom Docker image. They also modified the build script to enhance temporary file creation, added double quotes, and took the basename of the script when constructing temporary filenames.
raspberry-piraspbianarmbiandebian-linuxdebian
cocoaheads-slovenija/charge-oclock
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 11 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 months
swiftiosios-client
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