Summary
Jaka Prašnikar is a pragmatic full stack web developer with over a decade of experience building fast, user-focused web applications and streaming systems from the ground up. Starting as a teenage entrepreneur hosting game servers, he evolved into a versatile engineer comfortable with front-end frameworks (Vue, Angular), PHP backends (Laravel, Symfony), Node.js, and systems work on Linux, Docker and CI/CD pipelines. He founded the popular AdvancedTomato UI for router firmware—peaking at 13,000 active routers—which illustrates his knack for creating polished, widely adopted open-source interfaces. His background in streaming (Icecast, Wowza) and insurance platform development shows an ability to tackle both real-time media and complex business domains. Based in Maribor, Slovenia, he combines a maker’s entrepreneurial spirit with disciplined engineering and a long track record of remote, cross-border collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Slovenian