Tilen Faganel is a seasoned software engineering and solutions architecture leader with 11 years’ experience building cloud-native, integration and microservice platforms for startups, enterprises and governments, currently serving as VP Solutions Architecture at 10x Banking. He combines hands-on implementation skills—Java, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure, Terraform—with strategic client-facing design, helping financial organisations modernise core systems and migrate monoliths to scalable microservices. A pragmatic technologist, he pairs deep domain understanding with coaching and delivery practices to align teams and technology for measurable business impact. Tilen is an active open-source contributor and the founder of the award-winning KumuluzEE Java microservice framework (Oracle Duke’s Choice Award), and has contributed to prominent projects such as the Terraform providers for DigitalOcean and Azure. He excels at translating complex regulatory and business requirements into resilient architectures and is known for researching and judiciously applying new technologies rather than adopting them for their own sake. Based in London, he blends engineering craftsmanship with product-focused leadership to drive large-scale banking transformations.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer and Information Sciences General, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer and Information Sciences General at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science
Contributions:45 commits, 17 PRs, 10 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Tilen primarily contributed to the back-end development of the Terraform provider for DigitalOcean, updating the godo library, which interacts with the DigitalOcean API. Their commits reveal work on various resources and functionalities, including CDN, domains, and record management. The user also demonstrated DevOps skills by updating dependencies, which suggests involvement in build processes and aligning the codebase with updated SDKs.
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 14 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tilen's contributions focused on enhancing the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) provider for Terraform. They added new properties and functionalities for Azure automation schedules and SQL database threat detection policies. The user implemented and refined the existing code for resource definition, and incorporated testing for these new and modified features. Further work involved improving code quality by resolving formatting issues and cleaning up unnecessary conditions in the SQL threat detection configuration.
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Tilen Faganel - VP Solutions Architecture at 10x Banking