Summary
Marijan Svalina is a seasoned DevOps and software engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience spanning Linux, networking, backend and frontend development, and embedded/OpenWrt systems. He has led DevOps and DataOps initiatives—building firmware-to-cloud stacks, custom DDNS and LXC support on OpenWrt, and continuous deployment for medical IoT devices—while also shipping Python data tools and web features. Comfortable in corporate, startup, and remote freelance settings, he blends infrastructure hardening (VPN, iptables, backups, auditd) with application-level work (Vue.js, Node, Flask, PHP/Symfony). A pragmatic problem-solver and extroverted collaborator, he pairs operational discipline with curiosity, often pushing into new domains like Yocto builds and cryptodemo integrations. Based in Osijek, Croatia, he identifies as a bitcoiner and meditator, reflecting an interest in resilient systems and long-term thinking beyond code.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Cisco Certified Network Associate, CCNA, Cisco Certified Network Associate, CCNA at Algebra University College
Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Process Computing, Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Process Computing at Sveučilište 'Josipa Jurja Strossmayera' u Osijeku