Tonči Damjanić
Senior Staff Backend Engineer at Mews
Zagreb, Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolTonči Damjanić is a Senior Staff Backend Engineer and seasoned technology leader based in Zagreb with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native payment and ePOS systems. He combines hands-on full-stack expertise (Ruby, JavaScript, C#, Java, SQL) and infrastructure-as-code on AWS with deep domain knowledge in payments, PCI compliance and HSM integration. As former CTO and Director of Engineering at Bizzon and now at Mews, he has led product roadmaps, architected scalable backend APIs and payment gateways, and managed teams through code review, 1:1s and delivery planning. An active contributor to Rails I18n pluralization rules for South Slavic languages, he brings pragmatic internationalization experience alongside his technical leadership. Notable strengths include navigating legal fiscal compliance across countries and turning auditor-facing requirements into robust, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at FERNatural Sciences and Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Mathematics at III. gymnasium, SplitMSc, Computer Science and Computing, MSc, Computer Science and Computing at University of Zagreb/Sveuciliste u Zagrebu
Croatian, English, Italian, German
Github Skills (8)
i18n-js10
ruby-rails10
internationalization10
localization10
rails10
i18n-node10
ruby10
rspec7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
svenfuchs/rails-i18n
Jul 2014 - Apr 2022
Repository for collecting Locale data for Ruby on Rails I18n as well as other interesting, Rails related I18n stuff
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tonči primarily focused on updating and extending the internationalization (i18n) support within the Rails I18n project. They updated pluralization rules for various languages, including Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Serbo-Croatian. These updates involved renaming files, modifying pluralization logic, and incorporating new languages. The user also corrected existing tests and added fractional number support to the pluralization rules.
ruby-on-railslocaleinterestingrailsruby
toncid/delayed_job
Oct 2018 - Jun 2023
Database based asynchronous priority queue system -- Extracted from Shopify
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
asynchronoustask-queuedatabaseprioritybull
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