Mislav Cimperšak is a technology executive and hands-on engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling SaaS and cloud-native products from Zagreb. As Director of Engineering at Gencove he leads cross-functional teams spanning backend, frontend, data engineering and bioinformatics while partnering with product to define the roadmap and hire continuously. A pragmatic Python aficionado who still contributes code, he has meaningful open-source localization work on the widely used Faker library and has improved API tooling and documentation for Python Trello clients. His background includes architecting microservices and CI/CD on AWS, driving testing and code review culture at scale, and running a private consultancy to stay close to implementation. Known for blending strategic leadership with deep technical involvement, he often takes on the tasks others avoid to keep projects moving.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Gimnazija A.G. Matoša Zabok
master's degree Information sciences, master's degree Information sciences at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Contributions:12 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Mislav contributed significantly to the localization efforts of the project, specifically focusing on Croatian (hr_HR) language support. Their commits primarily involved adding localized data for various providers within the Faker library, including person names, phone number formats, internet domains, company suffixes, addresses, job titles, SSN (OIB) generation, color names, and date/time elements. These additions enhanced the library's ability to generate realistic fake data for Croatian users.
Contributions summary:Mislav primarily contributed to the documentation and functionality of the Python API wrapper for the Trello API. They added docstrings and fixed formatting to improve readability and maintainability. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to parameters within methods, ensuring consistency between method definitions and their corresponding documentation. These changes focused on the `board` and `card` modules, enhancing the API wrapper's usability and clarity.
api-clientapipythonpipapi-wrapper
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Mislav Cimperšak - Director Of Engineering at Solvomon