Hello, my name is

Luka Železnik

I am a Senior Software Engineer with an Extreme Ownership mindset!

Automations Guru
DevOps
Pythonista
Luka Železnik profile

Getting Things Done

There are only so many hours in a day and if work-life balance is to be achieved we need to make the best of our time. Great productivity often comes from good habits and an effective system. Stress-free productivity arises from a consistent and trusted cognitive offload.

Extreme Ownership

I apply the principle of extreme ownership in my personal life as well as in my professional life. Whatever tasks and responsibilities are within my circle of influence, I will do my best to take care of them, learn about them or find people who can help out.

Deep Work

As a software engineer, my primary value comes from solving complex problems. Therefore my productivity is directly related to the amount of time I can focus. This presents a unique challenge for all knowledge workers as deep work is increasingly rare and hard to achieve.

Humor & Stoicism

The modern workplace can be fairly stressful, but stoicism in its enduring wisdom provides well needed advice. I make it my mission to bring positivity & humor to anywhere I work, which helps overcome any obstacle.

Skills

These are the technologies I am great with

Recommendations

This is what other people say about me

Luka is one of the most talented people I've had the privilege of working with. Not only is he very knowledgeable, he always shows high initiative and proactively discovers and solves problems. He is super fun to work with and will always meaningfully challenge your ideas and provides great feedback. Despite only having worked with him for a (relatively) short time, I learned a lot from Luka and am very grateful for all the super interesting discussions we had.

Robin Hueber

Few people have the opportunity to work with such committed and passionated individual, but I do while working together in Bitpanda. I hired Luka in February 2022 and since then I am impressed by the energy he brought in the team, suggesting process improvements, automating manual work and even tackling in very first month challenging tasks. Luka's ability to juggle multiple projects was unlike any I’ve seen before and made a drastic difference in the productivity level of our team. He also makes sure all our mornings start with inspiring and motivational greetings! Luka is a great asset in our team!

Marius Ciortan

Passion, commitment, and ownership, that is what comes to mind if I describe Luka. I have had the pleasure to work closely with Luka for seven months, during which he was a member of my team at voestalpine High Performance Metals DIGITAL SOLUTIONS. Luka is not only an experienced senior software engineer but also an aspiring DevOps engineer. He has made a big impact by working in a highly goal-oriented, structured, and focussed way. His strong technical expertise is beyond debate. In his short time, not only did we together develop and deliver data-driven products to customers, but Luka did also lay the DevOps foundations for my and for other teams while managing the involved stakeholders at a high level of satisfaction. Luka's ambitions were always rewarded with excellent customer feedback. In my opinion, Luka stands out by his eagerness to learn new things, his willingness to share his knowledge with others, and a humorous approach to things. He also deserves credit for not shying away from speaking up for his values and his principles. Any organisation would be lucky to have Luka as an employee and a loyal colleague.

Lukas Lang

When Luka joined our team, he was immediately eager to learn and contribute. His pragmatic attitude allowed him to work successfully in many projects. Luka is a very enthusiastic person and has a lot of energy to finish assignments and at the same time is driven to improve and document processes. Volunteering for our on call team, he found ways of automating tasks which proved very helpful. As was mentioned by others he helped train new joiners and get them up to speed quickly. I am glad that we were part of Luka's journey and wish him all the best.

Christian Burger

I had the pleasure of working closely with Luka when introducing a new testing process to the team in Vienna. Luka showed great enthusiasm in helping us define the process and drive it forward within the team. He not only spent a lot of time with me to help come up with the changes we wanted to make, but also took it upon himself to help train the new testers and help make sure they had everything they needed to do their job well. Luka is a great developer, skilled leader and an incredibly hard working and passionate team player who I would love to work together with again in the future!

Lee Marco

Luka is the perfect mixture of talent and energy. He knows technology very well and has the ability to handle even the toughest problems. Luka was very engaged in shaping the company culture and helped improve the onboarding process. He is a very passionate and detail-oriented person, never afraid of asking difficult questions and thoroughly executing the strategy he crafts every time.

Joanna Klita-Ganauser

Luka is one of the most dedicated professionals I’ve worked with and is willing to go the extra mile to help you out when needed. I was fortunate to have Luka as my Mentor when i started at Trayport. I benefited a lot from his capability to explain difficult topics in an easy to grasp manner and his knowledge sharing attitude. What really impressed me most about Luka is his ability to deal with conflicting priorities in high-pressure situations. His competence to work cross-departmental played a key role in improving the workload of on-call in recent months. With his positive and friendly attitude, Luka is an asset to any Team. Thanks a lot for all your help! You made the transition into the team really smooth for me. I highly recommend Luka if you need to get the job done!

Manuel Danner

Luka is a role model when it comes to teamwork. Always open to helping out the team and giving constructive feedback, he really creates an example to follow and influences the whole team going into the same direction. Luka is continually learning and growing, both personally and professionally and is thriving for excellence to create the best possible outcomes. He sees challenges & failures as an opportunity to grow and get better. His proactive approach and taking on new challenges moves the organization forward and brings fresh and new ideas to experiment with. Luka, working with you side by side is inspiring, thanks for being such a great peer! :)

Franz Eichner