Mitja Bezenšek
Arrow Bender at tldraw
Slovenia
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Top SchoolMitja Bezenšek is a seasoned frontend engineer and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building performant, user-focused web applications and teams across startups and scale-ups. Currently an "Arrow Bender" at tldraw, he contributes to a popular open-source infinite canvas SDK, improving internationalization, accessibility, and UX across the codebase. Previously he served as CTO at Zebra BI where he shipped multiple products, chose tech stacks, and helped scale the company to ~€2M ARR while leading hiring and product-market work. At Pitch he combined hands-on frontend work on data visualization with people leadership, mentoring, and process improvements. He also runs a successful content and SEO-driven side project that grew to 100k monthly visitors, showing a rare mix of engineering, product, and growth skills. Comfortable in TypeScript, SVG/D3, and performance tuning, Mitja brings pragmatic technical direction and a strong eye for UX and developer practices.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc, Computer Science, Software Design, B. Sc, Computer Science, Software Design at Univerza v LjubljaniGimnazijski Maturant, Gimnazijski Maturant at Jesenice GymnasiumStudent Exchange, System Integration, Student Exchange, System Integration at Odense Teknikum, Denmark
English, German, Croatian
Stackoverflow
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122answers
5questions
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
typescript10
user-interface10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
charts9
excel9
localization9
exp9
svg9
user-experience9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
tldraw/tldraw
Nov 2022 - Apr 2025
whiteboard SDK / infinite canvas SDK
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:519 reviews, 725 PRs, 1416 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mitja's contributions primarily centered around enhancing the user interface and user experience of the tldraw application. They added internationalization support by adding new localization keys and by translating strings, along with implementing improvements to tooltips and menus. They also made accessibility improvements by changing the styles for screen readers.
reactsvgtinysketchwhiteboard
tldraw/make-real
Nov 2023 - Dec 2023
Draw a ui and make it real
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 17 days
Contributions summary:Mitja focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the `make-real` application. Their work involved implementing features for generating SVG representations, incorporating timeouts for improved performance, and refactoring existing code for simplification. Key contributions include the addition of a dropdown menu with options for sharing the UI, as well as integrations with third-party platforms like CodeSandbox, StackBlitz, and CodePen.
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