Mladen Lotar
Chief Executive Officer at Toptal
Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolMladen Lotar is a systems-minded software leader and CEO with over a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack, DevOps, and AI-driven automation systems. He founded The Shop to deliver production-ready integrations between Anthropic, OpenAI, n8n, and LangChain, focusing on scalable, measurable, and maintainable workflows rather than proofs of concept. His background spans leading engineering teams, running technical strategy for eCommerce and automation at Trive, and delivering infrastructure automation through Toptal. Comfortable from cloud infra to modular workflow design, he emphasizes clarity, performance measurement, and long-term reliability. Based in Croatia, he combines entrepreneurial leadership with deep implementation experience—often architecting pipelines that replace manual ops with self-sustaining systems. An understated strength is his systems-engineering perspective: designing automation that adapts in the wild and stays operable years after deployment.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnasium Vinkovci1 Electrical engeneering, 1 Electrical engeneering at Sveučilište 'Josipa Jurja Strossmayera' u Osijeku
English, Croatian
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Github Skills (36)
php9
adobe8
magento8
ecommerce8
nodejs-application7
math6
expressjs6
affiliates5
react5
margin5
javascript4
nodejs4
chartjs-plugin4
api4
grid4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
the-shop/ReactJSServer
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 2 months
reactexpressjsjavascriptexpressserves
the-shop/StarAPI
Feb 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:151 PRs, 322 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 11 months
apirestfulrestrest-apilaravel
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