Jan Likar
DevOps Engineer (Automation Security)
Slovenia
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Likar is a DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in Python backend development, infrastructure as code, Linux administration, and cloud security—particularly on AWS. He builds reproducible, low-maintenance cloud systems using Nix and Terraform, and has applied that expertise across roles from fintech at Bitstamp to serverless reinsurance solutions. A pragmatic automation-focused engineer, Jan combines hands-on CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, and Packer work with operational experience managing databases and VPNs. He contributes to notable open-source tooling—adding practical features to rustfmt—and enjoys functional languages, drawing design insights from Clojure and Elixir even without large production projects. Based in Slovenia, he consults and engineers with a bias toward reliability, reproducibility, and security.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science (unfinished), Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science (unfinished) at University of Ljubljana
English, Slovenian
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Github Skills (14)
formatter10
rust10
cargo10
formatters10
getopts9
getopt9
html6
linux6
php6
codeigniter6
file-upload6
python6
database6
mysql6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rustfmt
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
Format Rust code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 PRs, 21 comments, 2 issues in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and usability of the `rustfmt` tool. They implemented features such as accepting a list of files for formatting and added a version switch to display version information. Furthermore, the user contributed to the project's build process by adding a utility for formatting all Rust files within a crate, enabling a more streamlined workflow. The user also added verbose and quiet flags for more control.
rustcodeformatterformatterrustfmt
JanLikar/multi-docker-app-test
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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