Jakob Hostnik
DevOps Technical Lead at Etilk d.o.o.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Top SchoolJakob Hostnik is a DevOps Technical Lead and startup co-founder with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native systems from Ljubljana, Slovenia. He leads development and DevOps for CALMS Air’s energy optimization platform, combining Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD, monitoring and IoT device integration while still contributing code. As former CTO he drove a migration from legacy frameworks to microservices, improving scalability and enabling production-grade observability. He also co-founded Etilk, where he gained product and customer-facing experience running niche digital projects alongside his technical work. Jakob’s background in mathematics and computer science and early full‑stack roles give him a pragmatic balance of engineering depth and product sense. He’s notably comfortable moving between board-level technical decisions and low-level DevOps implementation.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of LjubljanaMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Vegova Ljubljana
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Github Skills (160)
postgresql10
postgresql-extension10
jose10
linux10
browser10
verify10
x50910
sql10
database10
acme-server10
timescaledb10
jwe10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hostops/generator-jhipster-javaee
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Jhipster blueprint for JavaEE instead of Spring. It supports MicroProfile and KumuluzEE
Contributions:31 commits, 6 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years
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hostops/slocode
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 41 pushes, 4 branches in 7 days
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