Summary
Tomislav Matijević is a Principal Front-end Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in React and modern front-end architectures, currently shaping long-term technical strategy at Toptal. He blends hands-on UI development (Remix, Next.js, GraphQL, Redux) with architectural leadership—creating epics, documenting migrations, and coaching teams to adopt scalable solutions. His background spans CMS integrations, performance-driven responsive design, and build-tool automation from Webpack to Gulp, plus practical testing expertise with Jest and Cypress. Notably, he founded a support site and authored a book on positive thinking for people who stutter, demonstrating user-centered advocacy beyond code. Based in Osijek, Croatia, he pairs a formal computing education with a knack for turning UX design assets into maintainable, high-performance front ends.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
mag.ing.comp Processing Computing, mag.ing.comp Processing Computing at Sveučilište 'Josipa Jurja Strossmayera' u Osijeku