Jaka Jaksic
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolJaka Jaksic is a senior software engineer and architect with two decades of experience building high-scale, mission-critical systems across startups, government, and big tech. He co-founded Plumfare (acquired by Groupon) and led backend systems at Groupon that delivered low-latency, high-throughput services and measurable revenue impact, and now works in Research & Machine Intelligence at Google while also running JTechLab. His background spans full-stack engineering, distributed systems, and product architecture with hands-on expertise in Java, Python, mobile platforms, and multiple databases, plus experience in patent research and authoring. He has a track record of delivering public-sector platforms (including a UN-awarded government service) and real-world voting and accreditation systems, showing an unusual blend of commercial, civic, and embedded-domain experience. Based in Mountain View, he combines startup founder grit with large-scale engineering rigor and a persistent focus on performance, scalability, and practical testability.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Upper Secondary School of Electronic and Computer EngineeringB.Sc., Computer Software Engineering, B.Sc., Computer Software Engineering at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science
English, Slovenian, Croatian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (62)
google-workspace10
service-mesh10
api-management10
kubernetes10
circuit-breaker10
nomad10
security10
fault-injection10
consul10
api10
google-cloud10
translate10
resiliency10
observe10
istio10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
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