Žiga Strgar
Senior Software Engineer at Choco
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolŽiga Strgar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building backend-first, event-driven systems and microservices primarily in JavaScript and TypeScript. He has a strong track record at companies like Taxfix and Blub Blub Inc., where he architected high-throughput analytics and queue services and automated company-wide processes using Google Pub/Sub. Focused on authentication, user management, payments and observability, he improved login conversion and migrated authentication to OIDC with PKCE for better security and portability. Known for optimizing performance—e.g., reducing subscription processing time by 65% and lowering server load by 30%—he balances pragmatic engineering with developer experience. Continuously expanding his toolkit, he’s recently studied Go and is passionate about shipping scalable, reliable systems that solve real user problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Web Development, Recommender and Decision systems, Bachelor's degree, Web Development, Recommender and Decision systems at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceTehnik računalništva, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, Vsa leta odličen, matura zaključena z 20imi točkami, Tehnik računalništva, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, Vsa leta odličen, matura zaključena z 20imi točkami at ERŠ Velenje
English, Slovenian, Croatian, Macedonian
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Github Skills (105)
error-reporting10
form-validation10
validation10
vue-datepicker10
vee-validate10
vue3-composition-api10
validations10
forms10
validate10
javascript9
fastify9
chromium9
api9
firefox9
developer-tools9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ZigaStrgar/fastify-bugsnag
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Fastify plugin for Bugsnag error reporting
Contributions:11 releases, 1 review, 67 commits in 1 year 7 months
reportingfastifybugsnag-jserror-reportingfastify-plugin
ZigaStrgar/zigastrgar-website
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
Personal webpage made in Laravel
Contributions:8 PRs, 51 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 5 months
laravelphppersonal-webpagewebpage
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