Sašo Matejina
Co-Founder & CEO at FTW d.o.o.
Florida, Slovenia
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Top SchoolSašo Matejina is a seasoned infrastructure and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes orchestration, and secure, scalable systems across startups and large-scale product teams. He has led infrastructure at Handshake and DoorDash, scaled Checkr’s platform during hypergrowth, and co-founded product-driven businesses including Blockr.io and Diler.si, marrying operational rigor with product insight. As a founder-CEO at FTW d.o.o., he now converts real-world operational learnings into scalable software, emphasizing practical deployment and logistics integration. His background spans hands-on engineering (Coinbase CI/CD), security and compliance (ISO 27001 and SOC 2 at Checkr), and cross-functional leadership across US and EU regions. Based in Florida with Slovenian roots, he brings both startup grit and enterprise process discipline, plus a knack for turning operational complexity into repeatable, automated systems. An entrepreneur at heart, he often bridges business operations and infrastructure strategy in ways that aren’t obvious from a traditional SRE resume.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems at Brooklyn CollegeSchool of mechanical engineering in Postojna, Slovenija
English, Slovenian
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Github Skills (200)
multithreading10
rack10
database-access10
audit10
nodejs10
packed10
bastion10
ssh10
ambassador10
rdp10
security10
pam10
certificate10
firewall10
golang10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
checkr/codeflow
Dec 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 187 commits, 96 PRs in 1 year 4 months
as-a-serviceplatform-as-a-servicenodejsevent-sourceevent-based
codeamp/logger
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
loggerlaravellogruslogging
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