I’m an engineering leader based in Ljubljana with over a decade of experience across platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and developer enablement. Over the years, I’ve grown from hands-on infrastructure work into leading platform teams and shaping technical strategy for modern SaaS products. I focus on building reliable systems, improving developer experience, and creating environments where engineers can do their best work. I value reliability, ownership, and continuous learning — both technically and as a leader. Outside of work, I spend my time with my partner, family, and friends, which keeps me grounded and focused.
Ivan Zupancic
Gorazdova ulica 3,
1000 Ljubljana,
Slovenia
+386 31 342486
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Representing and mentoring the local community as the first HashiCorp Ambassador in Slovenia
Founder and organizer of the Ljubljana HashiCorp User Group
Initiator and core organizer of DevOpsDays Ljubljana
Invited speaker — “Modernizing development and release workflows”
Conference attendee, deepening understanding of HashiCorp tooling and ecosystem direction
Platform & Engineering Leadership• Sep 2022 – Nov 2024
Started as a senior DevOps engineer supporting one of the company’s largest clients, helping standardize and modernize infrastructure practices. This led to forming and leading an internal platform team building reusable solutions for multiple projects. My responsibilities included defining infrastructure standards, mentoring engineers, coordinating delivery, and acting as a technical advisor to clients on cloud and platform strategy.
Platform Engineering• Nov 2021 – Aug 2022
As a senior platform engineer, my focus was reducing friction from development to production through platform improvements and self-service tooling. I worked on modernizing service deployment patterns, supporting developers across teams, and improving build and delivery workflows. I also led the move to self-hosted GitHub runners, improving build performance and control over CI infrastructure.
Consulting & Platform Engineering• May 2020 – Nov 2021
Worked with multiple clients as a DevOps and SRE consultant, helping design and operate reliable platforms using infrastructure-as-code. Projects included building cloud-agnostic microservice platforms on Microsoft Azure and promoting modern platform practices around automation, observability, and reliability.
DevOps Engineer• Nov 2018 – May 2020
Built and maintained AWS-based infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code, enabling development teams through reliable and repeatable deployment workflows.
System Administrator & Operator• Nov 2017 – Nov 2018
Operated virtualized environments for embedded systems development and maintained backup, disaster recovery, and delivery pipelines.
System Administrator• Sep 2015 – Feb 2017
Maintained Windows and Linux infrastructure with virtualization, authentication systems, backups, and operational support.
Mechatronics• In Progress
Secondary School of Mechanical Engineering