Miha Rekar
Software Writer at RedGuava
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Summary
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Top SchoolMiha Rekar is a seasoned software engineer and writer with 14 years of experience building and modernizing Ruby-based web applications while leading fully remote teams from Ljubljana. He blends hands-on full‑stack development—upgrading Rails apps, integrating background jobs and search, and improving UX—with engineering management, hiring and mentoring, and process redesign (Shape Up). A longtime remote-work advocate and community builder, he founded the Slovenia Ruby User Group, led engineering teams at Toptal and Silverfin, and hosts a developer-focused podcast that highlights people behind the code. His open-source and personal projects show a pragmatic focus on refactors, testing, and stable deployments (e.g., Rails app elovation with Elo/TrueSkill tracking). Outside work he’s a prolific photographer and connector who consults on remote transitions—bringing both technical depth and a human-first approach to product engineering.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Organization and Management of Information Systems, Masters Organization and Management of Information Systems at Faculty of Organizational Sciencessecondary school Computer Engineering, secondary school Computer Engineering at Srednja šola za elektrotehniko in računalništvo, Tehniška gimnazija, Vegova 4
Slovenian, English, German, Italian
Github Skills (9)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
videogames9
gameplay9
rspec8
html6
javascript6
css4
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
elovation/elovation
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Simple rails app to track your game results with elo and trueskill ratings
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 23 days
Contributions summary:Miha primarily contributed to the Rails backend and frontend, adding features to the dashboard and refactoring code. They also performed testing and made updates to configuration files, including upgrading Rails and Ruby versions and integrating Unicorn. Additionally, the user updated dependencies, such as Chosen and removed Bootstrap JS. The commits demonstrate a focus on both UI elements and backend logic.
rails-apptrueskillelotable-tennisfoosball
mrfoto/mrsi-gallery
Aug 2011 - Jun 2013
Contributions:70 commits in 1 year 10 months
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