Marko Šiftar
Principal Software Engineer at Evo Security
Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolMarko Šiftar is a Principal Software Engineer from Croatia with 13 years in the industry and a decade-plus specializing in full-stack development using Ruby, Rails, Angular, and modern JavaScript. He combines hands-on engineering with leadership experience—progressing from senior roles to technical lead and principal at Evo Security—delivering pragmatic, production-ready solutions with a "Get the stuff done!" mindset. Marko has contributed to well-known open-source tooling like the Airbrake Ruby library, adding Sinatra support and improving error handling and tests, showing attention to framework integration and reliability. Comfortable both leading teams and working independently, he quickly adapts to new stacks and focuses on continuous skill improvement. With an MSc in ICT from the University of Zagreb, he blends solid academic foundation with proven, long-term delivery in cloud and backend ecosystems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Information and communication technology, Telecommunications and Informatics, Master of Science in Information and communication technology, Telecommunications and Informatics at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
English
Github Skills (8)
error-handling10
sinatra10
ruby10
testing9
rails8
ruby-rails8
rack8
logging7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
airbrake/airbrake
Dec 2012 - Oct 2015
The official Airbrake library for Ruby applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 30 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Marko significantly contributed to enhancing the Airbrake library for Ruby applications by integrating support for Sinatra applications. They added Sinatra middleware, framework information, and improved error handling within the Sinatra context. Furthermore, the user addressed typos, updated the test suite, and modified deployment configurations, showcasing their involvement in bug fixing, feature enhancement, and testing aspects of the project. These changes indicate a focus on improving the library's functionality and integration with different Ruby frameworks.
error-monitoringhotel-bookingcapistranosneakersresque
shifi/airbrake-testing
Jun 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:31 comments, 625 issues in 4 years 2 months
testingreactairbrake
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