Zlatko Verk
Senior Backend Developer at Sofascore
Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolZlatko Verk is a Senior Backend Developer based in Croatia with eight years of experience building and maintaining scalable systems at SofaScore, where he progressed from Backend Developer to senior engineering roles. He holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science from FER, grounding his practical experience in strong academic training. Zlatko focuses on backend architecture and reliability, contributing to high-traffic sports data platforms that demand low-latency, resilient services. Colleagues know him for translating complex requirements into pragmatic, maintainable solutions and for owning end-to-end delivery. Though not a prolific public GitHub presence, his continuous tenure at a data-intensive product like SofaScore implies deep operational experience with production systems and real-time data pipelines. He brings a pragmatic, systems-first mindset to backend challenges and an appetite for optimizing performance under scale.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at FER
Github Skills (31)
caching10
invalidation10
slack-integration10
github-app10
purge10
varnish10
http-caching10
conversations10
annotations9
slack9
php9
readable9
elastica8
symfony-bundle8
symfony8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zlatkoverk/gimza-todo
Nov 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 62 pushes in 3 years 5 months
sofascore/purgatory-bundle
May 2021 - Oct 2022
A Symfony bundle for HTTP cache invalidation with support for various backends like Varnish.
Contributions:9 releases, 13 reviews, 25 commits in 1 year 4 months
annotationsreadablecachecachesmaintainable
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