Nikola Begedin
Company Owner at V7
Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolNikola Begedin is a seasoned full-stack developer and company founder with 12 years of experience building web and desktop applications, currently leading Bego Solutions and contributing at V7 from Croatia. He specializes in modern Elixir/Phoenix back-ends and React front-ends with PostgreSQL, while bringing a strong history in Ruby on Rails, Ember, and .NET. Nikola has held technical leadership roles including CEO and CTO, blending hands-on engineering with product and team leadership across startups and consulting engagements. He is an active open-source contributor to the Elixir ecosystem, notably improving the popular beam-community/stripity-stripe library with new account and OAuth handling and robust error/response mapping. Comfortable in remote and distributed teams, he pairs academic rigor from an M.Sc. in Computer Science with practical delivery of payment integrations and real-time web systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who refactors for correctness and reliability rather than novelty.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Eletrical Engineering and Computing
English, German, Croatian
Github Skills (11)
error-handling10
stripe10
elixir10
stripe-api10
apidoc9
api9
hex9
shex9
data-structures8
data-structure8
oauth8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
beam-community/stripity-stripe
Nov 2016 - May 2019
An Elixir Library for Stripe
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 7 reviews, 75 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nikola primarily contributed to the `beam-community/stripity-stripe` repository by implementing and modifying Elixir code related to the Stripe API integration. Their contributions included adding error handling for invalid requests, response mapping for OAuth, and account update endpoints. Furthermore, the user added new features for creating and updating accounts, including relevant keys and struct updates. They also refactored some code, and fixed issues related to data conversion and updating customer information.
hexelixir-librarystripeelixirstripe-api
begedin/ember-select-list
Sep 2015 - May 2021
A select dropdown component for ember
Contributions:5 releases, 53 commits, 27 PRs in 5 years 8 months
ember-addonselect-dropdownmultiselectemberjsember
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