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Matic Korošec

Occupation: Developer

Country: 🇸🇮 Slovenia

Born: 1995

Height: undefined

Weight: undefined

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The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. – Bill Gates

Hello traveler! I’m Matic and this is my little place at the end of the internet. Well almost at the end – as of November 2018, there are only 22 top-level domains after .xyz.

I like my privacy, so there won’t be much of anything that is not relevant to my work or education. That said, lets dive into events that shaped my journey.

Education

Brief overview of my formal education.

2002 – 2010 Primary school

In 2002 I started primary school. I switched two schools in the process of my mandatory education and finished it in 2010, with no idea what I want to do. Key figure in helping me choose a path forward was my father that inspired me to choose computer science.

2010 – 2014 High school

Began visiting High school of Computer science in Velenje (ERŠ ŠCV) and started learning everything there is to know about computers.

Curriculum became exciting in 3th year, when we finally started coding. Had great professors at key subjects such as programming, databases and information that allowed inclusion of my side projects. Forth year went by fast and here you go, I got a high school degree for computer science.

I failed 5th graduation subject (physics) which forced me to spend the following year out of education system learning new things on my own while I finished the 5th subject. Looking back, this was one of the bigger fails on my record, but I have felt really alive and stress free.

2015/2016 University

Next year I enrolled to Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana and (tried to) study Economics. Main reason was my interest in financial markets. Little did I know that that another fail was incoming.

When second semester passed, I knew I wouldn’t want to continue pursuing economics, but rather continue to work and study in field of computer science. I did get some knowledge about the basics of law, management and economics that were a good base for my future endeavors into those fields as a student of life and business.

2016 – present

Higher school for IT engineer degree

Moved back to Velenje, continued working and enrolled in Higher school of education (VSS ŠCV) to become an IT engineer. Difficulty level was none existent, so I was able to finish first year with pretty much zero effort.

Opened a firm on 6.2.2017 and became self-employed. History from this part on is covered in my resume. Work schedule pushed me away from school so I could focus on work. This year I am making an effort to finish second year and get my degree.

eBeat Startup

In June 2013 I was one of 5 founding members of startup eBeat. We won two startup competitions in a row and got a chance to present our idea at 3-day event TechCrunch Disrupt in Berlin (November 2013). This subject is very long and exhausting, so I decided to write a blog post on this topic, available here.

This were the most impactful series of events that accrued to me, made me realize who I want to be and in many ways shaped who I am today.

Šaleški Študentski klub

I was a part of Šaleški študentski klub for around 6 years. During that time I had many different roles, ranging from bare physical work to promotor, event organizer etc. For one year while studying in Ljubljana, I was the representative at Svet ŠOLS. Actually made my first ever production website for ŠŠK with WordPress – dmk.si.

As an organizer I helped organize a lot of events, surely more then 100. Also worked at most important youth festivals in Velenje: Dnevi mladih in kulture, Festival mladih kultur Kunigunda and Park s5 Dogaja.

services

Overview of what I do. Can solve more problems, but this are areas I focus on. Feel free to drop me a line if you have a problem for me via contact form.

Primary:

  • Backend and automation
  • Websites
  • eCommerce
  • Site optimizations
  • Integrations
  • Web services and APIs
  • WordPress plugins
  • Email migration from on-premise to cloud
  • Other data migration
  • Data rescue
  • Network setup

 

What can do but (probably) won’t do:

  • Chatbots
  • Excel/Access applications
  • Desktop programs
  • Mobile apps – iOS native/Xamarin
  • Fix your computer
  • Teaching/mentoring
  • Support already broken legacy systems
  • Crapware removal

Consulting:

  • Design systems/solutions
  • Digital transformation

Can be helpful in many fields but can’t do everything. Requests must be reviewed case by case.

Who can I help you find:

  • Server/website administrator
  • Programming mentor
  • Designer
  • Content creator/writer
  • Translator
  • SEO ninja

Full CV is available on request for HR people.

Hourly rates are 40€/h or higher, depending on the job.

Partners and collaborations


 

curriculum vitae

Hi, I’m Matic. Nice to meet you.

I started my journey as freelance developer nearly 5 years ago. I’ve done remote work for companies, collaborated with talented people and even consulted couple of times. I’m quietly confident, naturally curious, and perpetually improving my chops.

work history ORDER BY completed_at DESC

Brief overview of my past work as a freelancer. What were factors that lead me to this point are covered on about me page.

Quite a few projects are NDA bound so they can’t be shown or talked about publicly but for most I can talk about in a limited scope in private.

2019 – present

My works in general

nextGEN SOLUTIONS

For the past few years I focused mainly around projects using the following stack: PHP, Laravel, Vue, Nginx, Redis, Docker, Mysql and took a step back from classic WP/WC sites and one-off gigs. In this time I gained good undestanding of core AWS products (EC2, S3, RDS etc.), why PSR12, code analysis, clear, well documented code is so important and much more.

Some examples:
– NPS service (https://nps.hs-plus.com): dynamic form based on customer review, followup flows

– RMA – Reclamation management system (https://rma.hs-plus.com): track package, order modification before it’s dispatched (address, products, order cancellation), warranty, purchase withdrawal, product manuals. RMA has deep backend integration, has support for editing addresses for 22+ countries with some couriers with multiple delivery options. It draws data from 4 different databases, 10+ APIs, synces and normalises data from 200+ shops every day, has fairly big and expanding administration section. It’s logic has to be up to date with ever changing legislation and internal processes. It’s used daily by thousands of users.

– DBT anayltics: recently created new data warehouse for BI department, which consumes 200+ FB accounts, which transforms 10s of milions of data points. Stack: dbt, jinja2/python, SQL, redshift at first, then migrated to BigQuery.

– bellow you can also find couple of public projects, but there are quite a few more about which I can only talk in private.

2021

dzungla-plants.hr / dzungla-plants.com

DŽUNGLA PLANTS d.o.o.

Created the new website for the plants ecommerce business with a fair bit of customisations. One of the highlights is custom built product page upsell which on viewing specific plant offers you a selection of pots that match currently viewed plant. After child theme development was completed I migrated existing .com site and all of its data to the new WP instance with a brand new look.

Disclaimer: I’m not active maintainer of this sites anymore.

December 2020

butiksedem.si

SEDEM, BUTIK S KONCEPTOM, spletna trgovina z oblačili, Dijana Bećirović s.p.

Local boutique shop went online with this ever evolving story of fashion and style.

2020

Lill.si

Storitve v turizmu in projektna dela, Martina Majcen s.p.

Created website for booking listings similar to Airbnb but with much smaller scope of course.

This is one of the largest highly customised WP projects I built. It has a custom booking system, payment provider integration, iCal refresh, fiscalization (Čebelica API), cancellation policies, different booking price calculations, 2 different booking flows, a POS terminal for on-premise payments, email notification system and other features. Total scope of the project was around 40k lines (I used paid theme as a start).

January 2020

Full-time Freelancer

nextGEN SOLUTIONS

Back to full-time freelancing. I still work with HS PLUS d.o.o. on specific projects.

January 2020

Full-time Freelancer

nextGEN SOLUTIONS

Back to full-time freelancing. I still work with HS PLUS d.o.o. on specific projects mainly the reclamation platform which allows customers to manage their orders before and after delivery.

March 2019

Full-time job at HS Plus d.o.o.

HS Plus d.o.o.

Full time developer at HS Plus d.o.o., which runs e-commerce websites in more then 12 EU contries.

September 2018

Secret project

Birt d.o.o.

Can’t talk about it yet.

Jun 2018

Pr’ Vaflju

Me and my friend Miha Centrih opened seasonal bubble waffles shop at lake Velenje.

May 2018

emceplac.si

Zavod eMCe plac

WordPress
Features: multilingual, events management and reservation, focus on story and culture

Feb 2018

bambusmania.com

NOBEL, spletna trgovina in storitve, Sandra Bera, s.p.

Magento 2PHPHTMLCSSXML

Aug 2017

eko-cistila.si

Makom trgovina d.o.o.

WordPress

May 2017

kunigunda.si

Mladinski center Velenje

WordPress
Features: multilingual, events management, new design every year

Nov 2016 – Dec 2017

Full Stack Developer

TRENDNET d.o.o.

Worked on email marketing service called MailRocker. It was unfinished project running AngularJS 1.3 without API and no backend integration. Later on, I integrated drag-and-drop newsletter builder called Mosaico, made with Knockout and jQuery.

Frotend app:
AngularJS 1.6HTMLCSSJavascript~ 30 dependencies
Frontend editor:
KnockoutjQuery~ 10 dependencies
API:
Web Api 2 with .NET 4.5 in C# SQLJSON~ 15 dependenciesIIS

Languages I worked with before

PHPC#/C++/VBHTMLCSSJS/jQuerySwift/Objective-CXML/SOAPJSONJavaPythonSQL

and some bits here and there.

Like to work with

LaravelWP/WCVue

and good developers.

Able to deply on

self hosted instancessome AWS

prefer Ubuntu, Centos but can work with other Linux destributions

Web hosting control panels

Webmin/VirtualmincPanel

Frequently used Dev tools

    • Firefox Developer edition
    • PhpStorm
    • DataGrip
    • Sublime Text / Obsidian
    • Guake -> ohmyzsh
    • Postman
    • Gitkraken
    • Docker
    • VMware
    • Slack
    • JIRA

portfolio

Here you can find my most recent work for which I was hired for and am able to share. Also, some projects are not accesible online. Can show most of my work if you are interested in similar solution in private session.

I work on different interesting projects in my free time and will make an efford to revive some of those, so you can get a better grasp of my skills.

2021 dzungla-plants.com/dzungla-plants.hr

Plants shop with custom product page upsell and a lot of tweaks.

2020 butiksedem.si

Boutique fashion/clothing store made for local retailer.

2020 lill.si

One of the largest highly customised WP projects I built. It has a custom booking system, payment provider integration, iCal refresh, fiscalization (Čebelica API), cancellation policy, booking price calculation, 2 different booking flows, a POS terminal for on-premise payments, email notification system and other features. The plugin has around 10k rows of code. The theme that I used as a base had good front-end but it also had bloated functionality, poor theme settings and some bad design choices that I had to overcome. The child theme has around 25k rows of code. More about the development of this site in a future blog post.

2018 nextgen-solutions.xyz

Took two years to make but hey, got my own website now.

2018 emceplac.si

Site for club eMCe plac. On this project I pushed my design skills to the limit. Well, kind off :)

2018 bambusmania.com

E-commerce for sustainable bamboo products.

2017 eko-cistila.si

Simple site for product presentation.

2017 kunigunda.si

Site for The festival of youth culture Kunigunda.

2016 dmk.si

Site for festival Dnevi mladih in kulture.

2016 ssk-klub.si

Site for Šaleški študentski klub.

2016 lenelekse.com

Simple site for an artist.

2016 anzesever.com

Simple site for an artist.

2013 TypedUp!

Windows Store app made for Windows 8 (should still work today). Metro style app. Made with Luka Kužnik - helped with idea and design. I coded it in C#.

2014 LetterSanta

2013 Žepni koledar

contact

Sorry for phone and email behind the image but it’s the only way to fight bot scapers and their spam.

based in Velenje, Slovenia


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NextGEN SOLUTIONS, IT storitve in svetovanje, Matic Korošec s.p.
Cesta talcev 12
3320 Velenje, Slovenia
Registered: 6.2.2017
Registration number: 7228635000
ID for TAX: SI24188956
TRR: SI56 2900 0005 3282 248

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