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Hi, I’m Ziga Drev, a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building SaaS platforms, web and mobile applications, and cloud-native systems. I enjoy turning ideas into scalable software using React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, Django, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS. I excel at modernizing legacy systems, boosting performance, and delivering end-to-end solutions from concept to production. I thrive in collaborative environments with product, design, engineering, and stakeholders to ship practical AI-enabled features and impactful products.…Hi, I’m Ziga Drev, a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building SaaS platforms, web and mobile applications, and cloud-native systems. I enjoy turning ideas into scalable software using React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, Django, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS. I excel at modernizing legacy systems, boosting performance, and delivering end-to-end solutions from concept to production. I thrive in collaborative environments with product, design, engineering, and stakeholders to ship practical AI-enabled features and impactful products.

Ziga Drev

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Web Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Ziga Drev, a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building SaaS platforms, web and mobile applications, and cloud-native systems. I enjoy turning ideas into scalable software using React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, Django, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS. I excel at modernizing legacy systems, boosting performance, and delivering end-to-end solutions from concept to production. I thrive in collaborative environments with product, design, engineering, and stakeholders to ship practical AI-enabled features and impactful products.…Hi, I’m Ziga Drev, a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building SaaS platforms, web and mobile applications, and cloud-native systems. I enjoy turning ideas into scalable software using React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, Django, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS. I excel at modernizing legacy systems, boosting performance, and delivering end-to-end solutions from concept to production. I thrive in collaborative environments with product, design, engineering, and stakeholders to ship practical AI-enabled features and impactful products.

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Hi, I’m Ziga Drev, a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building SaaS platforms, web and mobile applications, and cloud-native systems. I enjoy turning ideas into scalable software using React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, Django, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS.

I excel at modernizing legacy systems, boosting performance, and delivering end-to-end solutions from concept to production. I thrive in collaborative environments with product, design, engineering, and stakeholders to ship practical AI-enabled features and impactful products.

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Senior Software Engineer at Pagepro

March 1, 2021 - Present

Delivered SaaS platforms, customer-facing web apps, internal portals, and mobile products for FinTech, HealthTech, MarTech, and e-commerce, using React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS. Built scalable backend services with Python/FastAPI for portals, payment workflows, analytics dashboards, and third-party integrations, improving API response times by 30% through query optimization, caching, and async processing. Enhanced high-traffic frontend performance by optimizing rendering, API calls, and bundle sizes, reducing page load times by up to 35%. Enabled real-time analytics with Redis and WebSocket-based updates; developed cross-platform features with React Native and Expo; supported cloud-native delivery on AWS via Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, and S3. Implemented AI-supported recommendations and automation features to boost engagement.

Full Stack Engineer at Madwise

October 1, 2018 - February 28, 2021

Modernized legacy C#/.NET systems by migrating services to Python with FastAPI, Flask, Django, and NestJS; built backend services for campaign orchestration, automation workflows, analytics, CRM sync, and reporting using Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, REST APIs. Developed customer dashboards and internal tools using React, Next.js, and TypeScript, and replaced slow synchronous workflows with Celery/Redis queues and background processing to reduce blocked API requests by ~40% during peaks. Optimized PostgreSQL queries and dashboards by ~30%. Integrated CRM, advertising, email marketing, analytics, authentication, and external APIs to reduce manual operations and improve automation reliability. Contributed to AI-assisted lead scoring and campaign optimization.

Back End Developer at Cosylab

October 1, 2015 - September 30, 2018

Developed backend services in C#/.NET, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, SQL Server; designed APIs and data models for distributed engineering platforms; implemented event-driven processing with Kafka for telemetry and real-time data movement. Improved database performance (SQL Server) by ~25% and built Angular internal interfaces for monitoring and operations tools. Participated in Docker-based modernization and improved deployment workflows.