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Hi! My name is Marko, I'm a software engineer with 10+ years of experience in development. I'm also interested in design, UX and all forms of Art. I'm living in a small European country Slovenia.

I’m always ready to do some freelance work, or to join a team with enthusiastic people, from Slovenia or around the world. If you think we could work together, or just want to say hi to me, don’t hesitate to contact me at: [email protected].

Company ID:

NAME: MARKO GAJŠT, s.p., RAZVOJ SPLETNIH APLIKACIJ
VAT:  SI94556423

Technologies, Tools & Libraries

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Electron
  • Tauri
  • SolidJS
  • Astro
  • Web3
  • Figma
  • more...

Skills

Development, UX, Design, Illustrating

Languages

  • Slovene (native)
  • English (advanced)
  • Russian (beginner)

Principles

Simplicity, clarity, minimalism, openness.

Protokol is empowering global enterprises to solve real business challenges and future-proof their business through the power of custom blockchain solutions. Combining the flexible and interoperable ARK Core blockchain platform with expert-led services, to translate complex blockchain technology into effective business outcomes.

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Date: 2021-
Role: senior frontend engineer
Tags: #web3 #crypto #blockchain #pwa

Votebetting is a non-gambling social application aimed at tipsters and recreational sports betting players.

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Advisory on the topic of front-end stack, design, UI, and UX.  Cooperation in interviews when selecting development providers. Limited code reviews.

Date: 2021-2023
Role: advisory
Tags: #advisory #pwa

MediaINFO is a complete Digital Library software solution for interactive and intuitive viewing, browsing, searching, cataloging and sharing digitized content.

Clients range from the smallest publisher to great national libraries and governmental institutions, that are bringing millions of pages and images online each year. MediaINFO is running tens of millions of pages worldwide and making tens of billions of words searchable.

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MediaINFO project is of a massive scale and endurance. Due to diversity of clientele, lots of hard work and emphasis is made on internationalization, which includes: non Latin character sets, alternative calendar systems (e.g. hijri), and RTL page layouts.

Date: 2016-2022
Role: senior frontend engineer, frontend lead
Tags: #arabic #rtl #multimedia #hi-res-images #ocr

Mysli Write is a beautifully designed, easy to use writing software for professional and personal use, with focus on privacy. Some of the features includes: distraction free writing experience, automatic document synchronization, documents statistics, organization with projects, groups, search, sorting and tagging. Audio notes, picture notes, TODO lists, goal setting. Zen mode. Encryption.

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Wide variety of features was researched and implemented for this project: Web Audio API for audio notes, Stripe for payments, Postmark service for e-mail handling. Express for the API part. Next.js and Gatsby for static homepage. Svelte was initially considered and used, before switch was made to React with Hooks and TypeScript. Figma was used for the design itself. Due to need for unique style and strong customization, UI components were custom made. For administration panel, Ant Design and later React Suite was used. Docker and GitLab's CI/CD was used for deployment.

Date: 2020-2021
Role: *
Tags: #creativity #writing #ux #usability

NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefónica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services.

NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia, and Seoul, South Korea.

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Date: 2012
Role: frontend engineer
Tags: #telecommunications #multimedia

Including aforementioned clients, I was cooperating with numerous smaller to medium, local and remote business and startups in various roles including: designer, backend and frontend engineer.

Hobbies & Interests

Hiking, woodworking, traveling, plants, music, gym, philosophy, meditation, art, psychology, reading, writing.