Janko Ulaga
Chief Product & Technology Officer at JustPlay
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJanko Ulaga is a seasoned product and technology leader with 11+ years of experience building high-performing engineering organizations and scalable platforms across fast-moving consumer and adtech businesses. As Chief Product & Technology Officer at JustPlay and former VP/Director roles at Flink and LiveIntent, he blends hands-on system design with product strategy to drive recommendation, pricing and data-platform initiatives that materially moved business KPIs. He excels at evolutionary architecture, platformization and establishing engineering governance that increases autonomy, predictability and delivery quality. A hands-on coach and believer in transparent, fair performance management, he routinely pairs clear development plans with demanding roadmaps to grow teams and culture. Notably, he has driven ad-tech standardization and internal dev-platform cost and impact metrics—turning technical investments into measurable business multipliers. Based in Berlin with a master’s in Physics and Computer Science education, he combines a rare mix of technical depth, people leadership and operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Education in Physics and Computer Science (mag. educ. phys. et inf.), Master of Education in Physics and Computer Science (mag. educ. phys. et inf.) at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u ZagrebuSpanish, Spanish at University of Buenos Aires
Github Skills (30)
javascript10
prebid10
header-bidding10
advertising10
webhooks9
data-collection9
snowplow9
server-side9
data-lineage8
aws8
gcp8
analytics8
snowflake7
dagster7
warehouse7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
LiveIntent/snowplow-javascript-tracker
May 2016 - Apr 2019
Snowplow event tracker for client-side JavaScript. Add analytics to your websites and web apps. (See also: snowplow-nodejs-tracker)
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 2 years 11 months
analyticstrackerclient-sideevent-trackerjavascript
liveintent-berlin/snowplow
Jun 2016 - Sep 2019
Enterprise-strength web, mobile and event analytics, powered by Hadoop, Kinesis, Redshift and Elasticsearch
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
kinesisanalyticsredshiftstrengthspark
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