Mitja Kuščer
Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead at Planet
Slovenia
Summary
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Top SchoolMitja Kuščer is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead from Slovenia with eight years of focused experience guiding engineering teams and shipping web products. He has a strong front-to-back career arc starting in web development and advancing through senior roles at Celtra—where he led an AI-driven Algorithmic Creative initiative in partnership with Uber—to product and leadership positions at Sinergise and Planet. Comfortable as both a hands-on engineer and product owner, he blends frontend expertise with product strategy to take research and prototypes into production. Known for navigating acquisitions and cross-functional collaboration, he brings pragmatic technical leadership and a knack for turning creative, data-driven ideas into scalable implementations.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceSecondary School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ljubljana
Slovenian, English
Github Skills (11)
insar10
sar10
satellite10
sentinel10
imagery10
sentinel-5p9
satellite-imagery9
earth-observation9
javascript8
web-components7
typescript7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
celtra/heroku-buildpack-imagemagick-7.0.8
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 months
openEOPlatform/openeo-pg-evalscript-converter
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:40 reviews, 16 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 months
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