Matej Ferenčević
Co-Founder And CTO at Croatian computer science association
Zagreb, Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatej Ferenčević is a co-founder and CTO based in Zagreb with nine years of experience building back-end systems, big data applications, and operational infrastructure. He combines high-level architecture design with low-level performance optimizations, having moved between system administration roles and hands-on engineering across startups and open-source projects. At Memgraph he significantly refactored the network stack—templatizing session handling and reimplementing sockets—bringing stronger test coverage and a new communication layer to a production graph database. As CTO of Omnisearch he now applies that database and systems expertise to make searchable infrastructure practical at scale. Active in Croatia’s CS community and trained with a master’s in electronic and computer engineering from the University of Zagreb, he pairs academic rigor with startup execution. Notably, his background shows a rare comfort shifting between protocol-level C++ work and product-focused platform leadership.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electronic and computer engineering, Master's degree Electronic and computer engineering at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Github Skills (9)
databases10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
relational-databases10
networking10
sql-database10
database10
template-metaprogramming9
unit-testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
memgraph/memgraph
Mar 2017 - Sep 2020
High-performance open-source in-memory graph database for GraphRAG, AI memory, agentic AI, and real-time graph analytics. Cypher-compatible, built in C++.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:520 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Matej primarily focused on refactoring the network component of the Memgraph graph database, moving it from the Bolt protocol to a new communication layer. Their work included the conversion of network states to template functions, templatization of the Bolt::Session class, and reimplementing the io::Socket. They also introduced unit tests for Bolt sessions and contributed to the server-side infrastructure for the database.
agentic-aiaicppcyphergraph
mferencevic/docs
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
Memgraph user documentation
Contributions:36 pushes, 56 branches in 1 year 4 months
memgraphuser-documentation
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