Mihovil Ilakovac is a founding engineer with 10 years of experience building full-stack web applications and shipping product-focused features from CLI to UI. Based in Croatia, he blends hands-on development (React, Node.js, Astro, Prisma) with product and leadership experience gained as Technical Lead and earlier product manager roles. He’s an active open-source contributor to notable projects like wasp-lang/wasp and open-saas, where he implemented uninstall CLI functionality and helped modernize dependencies and analytics. Comfortable across frontend, backend and tooling, Mihovil has a knack for simplifying code and developer workflows while keeping user delight front and center. Notably, his background spans both product ownership for AI features and low-level developer tooling changes, revealing a rare mix of product empathy and implementation depth.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
mag. ing. comp Computer Science, mag. ing. comp Computer Science at FER
Prirodoslovna-matematicka gimnazija Matija Mesic Slavonski Brod
A 100% free modern JS SaaS boilerplate (React, NodeJS, Prisma). Full-featured: Auth (email, google, github, slack, MS), Email sending, Background jobs, Landing page, Payments (Stripe, Polar.sh), Shadcn UI, S3 file upload. AI-ready with tailored AGENTS.md, skills, and Claude Code plugin. One cmd deploy. Powered by Wasp full-stack framework.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:145 reviews, 37 PRs, 87 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mihovil's contributions focused on updating and migrating the open-source SaaS application. They updated dependencies such as Astro, Starlight, Wasp, and Prisma. The user implemented Plausible analytics, fixed formatting issues, and simplified code. Their work involved both front-end (Astro) and back-end (Wasp, Prisma) code changes, demonstrating a full-stack development approach.
The batteries-included full-stack framework for the AI era. Develop JS/TS web apps (React, Node.js, and Prisma) using declarative code that abstracts away complex full-stack features like auth, background jobs, RPC, email sending, end-to-end type safety, single-command deployment, and more.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:2538 reviews, 21 commits, 812 PRs in 12 days
Contributions summary:Mihovil implemented the "uninstall" command feature, adding and updating documentation, as well as modifying the CLI and the underlying Haskell files to support it. They updated the codebase to incorporate features like the removal of Wasp from the user's system. Furthermore, the user also added the functionality to drop the npm version requirement.
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