Jani Cerar
Backend Platform Lead
Slovenia
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Top SchoolJani Cerar is a Backend Platform Lead with 8 years of hands-on experience building and operating scalable web platforms from Slovenia. He combines deep expertise in TypeScript/Node.js and PHP/Laravel with strong database and infrastructure skills across MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch and containerized Kubernetes deployments. Jani has progressed from full-stack and system administration roles to leading backend platform engineering at Inova IT, shipping resilient APIs, event-sourced systems and payment integrations at scale. He is also fluent in testing and CI practices (Jest, Codeception, Jenkins), and brings lower-level experience in C++ and C# that informs performance-minded design decisions. Known for bridging legacy PHP ecosystems with modern TypeScript and cloud-native tooling, he focuses on pragmatic, well-tested solutions that reduce operational risk.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Univerza v Mariboru
English, Slovenian
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Github Skills (35)
region10
laravel-nova9
belongsto9
momentjs8
maxmind8
location8
relation8
ip8
laravel8
quickbooks8
visitors8
geoip8
authenticate7
timestamp7
sorting6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LifeOnScreen/nova-google2fa
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
This package provides Google2FA support to Laravel Nova.
Contributions:6 releases, 20 commits, 9 PRs in 9 months
laravellaravel-novagoogle2fanova
LifeOnScreen/laravel-quickbooks
May 2018 - Nov 2018
QuickBooks meets Laravel. Finally.
Contributions:2 releases, 4 commits, 3 PRs in 5 months
laravelphpmeetsquickbooks
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