Mladen 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 Vinkovci
1 Electrical engeneering, 1 Electrical engeneering at Sveučilište 'Josipa Jurja Strossmayera' u Osijeku
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