Zlatko Bratković
Team Lead at FER
Zagreb, Croatia
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Top SchoolZlatko Bratković is a Team Lead and seasoned Go engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, primarily around HAProxy, Kubernetes, and Docker. As product owner and lead developer of a widely used k8s Ingress controller at HAProxy Technologies, he blends hands-on systems programming with architecture and CI/CD automation. He teaches Go at FER, pairing mentorship with practical production experience in OpenAPI-driven services and database-backed systems (Postgres, MySQL, Elasticsearch). His open-source work includes meaningful refactors and DNS resolver improvements to the HAProxy Ingress controller, reflecting a focus on maintainability and operational robustness. Comfortable across Python and front-end stacks, he brings a pragmatic history from embedded/desktop (Delphi, C#) to modern distributed systems. Based in Zagreb, Croatia, Zlatko is known for translating complex networking requirements into clear, testable, and deployable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
FERPrirodoslovno-matematička gimnazija A.G.Matoš
Croatian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
configuration-management10
ingress-controller10
kubernetes10
go10
haproxy10
dns10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jcmoraisjr/haproxy-ingress
May 2018 - Jun 2018
HAProxy Ingress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 18 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zlatko primarily focused on refactoring and improving the HAProxy Ingress controller's configuration and DNS resolution capabilities. They replaced usages of `configMap.Data[]` with `haproxyConfig`, and refactored code for more clarity. The user implemented a new annotation strategy for DNS resolvers. The user also addressed documentation and configuration defaults within the project.
haproxyingressingress-controllerkubernetes
oktalz/present
Jan 2024 - Mar 2026
Alternative tool for presenting
Contributions:5 PRs, 53 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 2 months
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