Nikola Brežnjak
VP Of Engineering at enrich
Croatia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolNikola Brežnjak is a VP of Engineering with 14+ years of hands-on and executive experience building and scaling global engineering teams and consumer mobile products. He has driven product and technical strategy at companies like Teltech and Nomorobo—leading cross-functional teams, acquisitions, and the integration of generative AI into flagship apps that reached millions of users. A prolific author and community builder, Nikola has published two technical books, 500+ blog posts, 100+ podcast episodes, and maintains 150+ GitHub repos while ranking in the top 3% on StackOverflow for Ionic expertise. He pairs deep full‑stack and mobile engineering roots (Ionic, Angular, Node.js) with operational rigor—establishing hiring frameworks, engineering metrics, and security/compliance practices as an executive. Notably, he led engineering through product-driven M&A and was the first non-US executive to sit at his former company’s executive table, reflecting both technical credibility and international leadership. Based in Croatia with an MSc in Computer Science, he blends relentless craftsmanship with a commitment to open source and mentorship.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at FER
English, German, Slovenian
Github Skills (13)
markdown10
editors10
user-authentication10
authentication10
javascript10
nodejs10
markdown-it10
expressjs10
editor10
nodes10
oauth10
wikipedia10
css9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ryanlelek/Raneto
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Markdown powered Knowledgebase Wiki for Node.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Nikola primarily focused on enhancing the authentication and user experience aspects of the knowledgebase wiki. Their commits reveal the addition of Google OAuth login functionality, including the necessary configurations and dependency installations. They also addressed minor code conflicts and restored configurations related to authentication features. The user's work demonstrates an effort to expand the project's functionality and improve user accessibility.
node-jsknowledgebasenodejswikieditor
Hitman666/IonicServerSave
Jun 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
php-serverphpsimplestionic
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