Primoz Cigler
Retired at RIFUZL
Slovenia
Summary
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Top SchoolPrimoz Cigler is an entrepreneurial technologist and environmental advocate from Slovenia with over a decade of experience building web products and founding companies. He has led and scaled multiple ventures—most notably ProteusThemes and Unwanted Hero—combining CEO-level strategy with hands-on full‑stack work such as improving WordPress theme build processes. As co-founder and head of business development at Rifuzl he merged purpose and commerce by launching Slovenia’s first plastic‑free shop, handling marketing, finance and partnerships. Primoz blends a physics/astronomy academic background with practical software craftsmanship dating back to freelance PHP work, giving him a systematic, data‑driven approach to product development. He’s also a connector who cultivates an international network of service providers and clients to accelerate new business ideas. Outside formal roles he stays active in project-level engineering details and shares insights on his professional blog.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Degree in Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Degree in Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Slovenian, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
css10
wordpress10
gulp10
javascript10
build-automation9
front-end-development9
html8
url-parameters6
browser-refresh6
autoplay6
animation6
url-parsing6
refresh6
google-maps6
gif6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
richtabor/MerlinWP
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Better WordPress Theme Onboarding
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 7 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Primoz primarily focused on improving the theme's build process and front-end components. They fixed a build issue in the `gulpfile.js` related to the translation task. The user also moved the `.csscomb.json` config file, recompiled CSS, and reconfigured the gulp script minification process. Furthermore, they changed a hardcoded version constant and removed an unnecessary gulp-concat dependency.
onboardingwordpresswordpress-themethemeswordpress-plugin
proteusthemes/themeforest-preview-bar
Dec 2013 - Jul 2017
Contributions:197 commits, 2 PRs, 78 pushes in 3 years 8 months
arrayconfigurablejavascriptdropdownthemes
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