Simon Jesenko
CEO & CTO at PlanDela d.o.o.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Top SchoolSimon Jesenko is a CEO & CTO with 11 years of experience leading PlanDela from its technical roots to a product-focused workforce management platform focused on automated employee scheduling. Holding a PhD in computational physics, he applies machine learning, optimization and computational modeling to create fairer, regulation-compliant shift schedules for complex industries. He combines strategic leadership with hands-on engineering, having progressed from CTO to CEO while still driving core technical development. Simon also engages directly in marketing and design to align product UX with algorithmic capabilities, ensuring solutions are adopted by real teams. Based in Ljubljana, he brings academic rigor and startup pragmatism to operational problems, turning advanced optimization research into practical SaaS features. Open to collaborations on AI for workforce management, he’s particularly interested in scheduling algorithms that balance legal constraints with employee fairness.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
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Github Skills (160)
jquery-plugin10
postgresql10
seeding10
apollo-client10
declarative10
linear-programming10
optimization10
javascript10
jquery10
ember-components10
operations-research10
data-mapping10
sql10
scalable10
database10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jesenko/airbrakex
Apr 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes in 4 years 7 months
elixirairbrakeelixir-client
jesenko/SlickGrid
Sep 2015 - Feb 2020
A lightning fast JavaScript grid/spreadsheet
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
javascriptlightningdatagridgridspreadsheet
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