Marko Bekavac
Independent Consultant & Advisor - Engineering Leadership at Self-employed
Zagreb Metropolitan Area Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolMarko Bekavac is an engineering leader and independent consultant with 13 years’ experience scaling teams and systems to serve hundreds of thousands of customers daily. He has built a 35+ engineer org from scratch, led a cross-vertical re-architecture that increased capacity 10x while halving MTTR, and maintained near-zero voluntary churn across 50+ direct reports through deliberate hiring and coaching. Marko specializes in org design, post-merger integration, and turning ambitious product bets into reliable, high-performance deliveries—multiple deploys per day, 99.9% uptime, and CFRs below 10%. Empathetic but direct, he focuses on lightweight operating systems (team topology, career ladders, on-call, standards) that let large organisations move fast without sacrificing quality. Based in Zagreb, he is available for strategic advisory, fractional leadership, or senior in-house roles for teams scaling into the 20–60 engineer range.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u ZagrebuMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Wrocław University of Science and Technology
English, Croatian, German, Polish
Github Skills (2)
python-api3
python3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
TakeLab/gpkex
Sep 2012 - Aug 2013
Contributions:9 commits in 11 months
Weenkus/quora-questions-pairs-kaggle
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 months
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