Luka Maljic
Studio Director at Dark Sail Studio
Grad Pula, Croatia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLuka Maljic is a studio director and tech entrepreneur with 11 years of hands-on experience building games, web platforms, and distributed systems. He combines deep Rust expertise—most recently managing and leading Rust teams on an iGaming jackpots platform—with a strong background in game development, having led the award-winning Saint Kotar project. Luka moves fluidly between strategy, operations and low-level engineering: he has built production tools, bespoke scripting languages, fintech DLT prototypes, and developer workflows for game production. His career began in archaeology, and that analytical, research-driven mindset still informs his approach to design and problem-solving. Based in Pula, Croatia, he’s equally at home shipping playable prototypes for publishers and architecting scalable backend services.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Classical Archaeology, Master's degree Classical Archaeology at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Croatian, English, Italian, Russian
Github Skills (77)
firefox-addon10
effector10
browser10
firefox10
mobx10
typescript10
router10
mozilla10
redux10
react10
javascript9
gdscript9
reactive-programming9
scalable9
swift9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
malj/django-webpack-starter-template
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Django & Webpack starter template
Contributions:24 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
pythondjangowebpack-starterwebpack4webpack
malj/malj
Mar 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.