Janez Demšar is an idea-driven owner and Idea Manager with 23 years of experience blending technology, banking operations, and digital content in Ljubljana. He has a strong background in electronic banking leadership and alternative channels from roles at UniCredit and Bank Austria, and today runs his own venture AJD while also working in social media and content. As an active open-source contributor to Biolab’s Orange projects, he has hands-on experience improving data analysis, visualization and backend stability in a notable data mining suite. His mix of engineering training, long corporate leadership in fintech, and practical coding contributions means he bridges product, ops and development fluently. Known for pragmatic refactors and solving subtle statistical and memory issues in legacy code, he brings a knack for modernizing tools without losing institutional knowledge. Based in Slovenia, he combines entrepreneurial curiosity with a history of coaching and training technical users.
23 years of coding experience
Primary School, General Studies, Primary School, General Studies at Osnovna šola Prešernove Brigade Železniki :-)
Graduate, Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians, Graduate, Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians at Univrsity of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Technician, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Technician, Mechanical Engineering at Secondary school for mechanical engineering in Škofja Loka
DEPRECATED: Orange 2 (Python 2) data mining suite. NEW: https://github.com/biolab/orange3
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:2410 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 11 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Janez appears to have contributed to the codebase by fixing and refactoring several parts of the Orange2 data mining suite, including the PerfectDomainContext, and implementing multiple value-based features. They addressed issues in the core and statistical components, especially within the context of class variables and distributions. Additionally, the user optimized for potential memory leaks and adapted the code base to work with more current libraries.
🍊 :bar_chart: :bulb: Orange: Interactive data analysis
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Contributions:180 reviews, 3240 commits, 1797 PRs in 13 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Janez made several contributions to the `biolab/orange3` repository, primarily focused on enhancing the data analysis and visualization capabilities. The commits included modifications to the Table class to allow setting attributes, along with added features to several widgets, like the box plot. Moreover, the user implemented changes that included the addition of a column with p-values.
orangepythondata-miningorange3scipy
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Janez Demšar - Idea Manager -) And Owner at AMC Slovenija