About Me

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.

Contact Details

Ivan Zupancic
Gorazdova ulica 3,
1000 Ljubljana,
Slovenia

+386 31 342486
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Noteworthy

HashiCorp Ambassador 2024

Representing and mentoring the local community as the first HashiCorp Ambassador in Slovenia

HashiCorp User Group Organizer 2024

Founder and organizer of the Ljubljana HashiCorp User Group

DevOps Days Organizer 2023

Initiator and core organizer of DevOpsDays Ljubljana

HashiTalks 2021

Invited speaker — “Modernizing development and release workflows”

HashiConf 2019

Conference attendee, deepening understanding of HashiCorp tooling and ecosystem direction

Work

Head of DevOps – Povio

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.

Senior Platform Engineer – Bloom & Wild

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.

Freelance DevOps Consultant

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.

d.labs

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.

Multimedia Vision

System Administrator & Operator Nov 2017 – Nov 2018

Operated virtualized environments for embedded systems development and maintained backup, disaster recovery, and delivery pipelines.

Jožef Stefan Institute

System Administrator Sep 2015 – Feb 2017

Maintained Windows and Linux infrastructure with virtualization, authentication systems, backups, and operational support.

Education

College of Professional Studies

Mechatronics In Progress

Secondary School

Secondary School of Mechanical Engineering