Miha Pleško is a senior backend engineer and pragmatic team lead with over a decade of experience building resilient, production-grade systems for high-scale finance and cloud platforms. He has grown engineering teams from small startups to multi-team divisions, led stabilization of legacy systems at Bitstamp’s compliance stack, and recently delivered a multi-regional Go microservice with DDD, CQRS, and robust observability at LeanIX. Hands-on across Python/Django, Go, AWS/Azure, Kubernetes and event-driven architectures, he favors domain-language-driven code and strong test coverage to keep complex systems understandable and safe. An active open-source contributor, his work spans ManageIQ UI and integrations, unikernel tooling, and Kubernetes VM runtimes—showing a knack for bridging backend, DevOps and QA. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic delegation, agile leadership and the rare ability to turn messy legacy requirements into testable, maintainable domains.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering, avg 9.33, Master of Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering, avg 9.33 at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science
The Unikernel & MicroVM Compilation and Deployment Platform
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:14 commits, 10 PRs, 67 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Miha significantly contributed to the development of the OSv compiler and integration with various providers. They refactored the compiler to support NodeJS applications, enhancing its extensibility. Furthermore, the user implemented fundamental OpenStack support by adding authentication mechanisms and necessary service client configurations, paving the way for deploying unikernels on OpenStack. They also added support for multiple languages by developing and testing the compiler, and implemented a CLI tool to describe the configuration of the compilers.
Contributions:40 commits, 58 PRs, 163 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Miha contributed to the ManageIQ UI, adding features related to cloud object store containers and VMware vCloud event monitoring. They implemented new UI elements and workflows, including the creation, deletion, and clearing of object storage containers, and enabling web-based WebMKS console access for VMware vCloud VMs. The user also enhanced the reconfigure UI for network adapter configuration and implemented several other improvements to the user interface.
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Miha Pleško - Senior Software Engineer (BE) at LeanIX