Summary
Matjaž Pečan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with 14 years of experience building reliable, data-driven web and backend systems across fintech, e‑commerce, and SaaS. He has led platform migrations to GCP, optimized data pipelines for financial transparency, and driven architectural improvements that reduced incidents and improved operational efficiency. As a hands-on engineering leader he combines mentorship and process changes (TDD, pairing, KPI tracking) to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality. Known for translating complex distributed systems into pragmatic solutions, he frequently bridges cross-team communication on SLOs/SLAs and cost monitoring for cloud and observability vendors. His background in electrical engineering and early work on distributed processing and acquisition systems gives him a systems-level perspective that informs scalable design decisions.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Gimnazija Koper
Bachelor of Sciences (B. Sc) Electrical engineering Automatics Robotics, Bachelor of Sciences (B. Sc) Electrical engineering Automatics Robotics at Univerza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za elektrotehniko
English, Italian, French, Serbian