Summary
Jure Polutnik is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11 years of experience who currently heads Product Engineering at Bitstamp, where he progressed through technical and managerial roles to lead cross-functional delivery in a fast-paced fintech environment. He combines a solid computer science foundation with hands-on expertise across front-end and back-end systems, migration projects, and performance optimization, having led major architecture and SPA modernizations at Zemanta and multiple EU research integrations at XLAB. Known for improving developer productivity and maintainable codebases, he has driven migrations (AngularJS→Angular, Grunt→Webpack) and scalable backend architectures while keeping a strong focus on measurement-driven performance (RAIL model). Comfortable bridging research and product teams, he brings experience coordinating multi-partner EU projects and presenting results at conferences, which gives him a rare mix of technical depth and external-facing program leadership. Based in Slovenia, he’s a pragmatic problem solver who quickly adapts to new technologies and environments and consistently translates complex requirements into reliable, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, thesis 10/10 (avg. 8.8), Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, thesis 10/10 (avg. 8.8) at Univerza v Ljubljani
English, Slovenian, German, Serbian