{"id":2611,"date":"2016-04-23T12:04:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T12:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?page_id=2611"},"modified":"2025-01-07T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T10:41:08","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; width: 300px; height: 190px; padding: 10px 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/funny-1-copy-300x190.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m an engineer at heart and a jack of all trades kind of guy.<\/p>\n<p>For those who care about titles, I hold a masters degree in computing from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fer.unizg.hr\/en\/education\/msc_study\/comp\/piis\">FER<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(and a black belt in karate, but that&#8217;s another story&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>For a handful of years, I&#8217;ve been working in the mobile app space (Teltech\/Mosaic, and now Nomorobo) making innovative communications apps. Over the years I grew teams from 4 to over 50 and am currently serving as a VP of Engineering at Nomorobo responsible for everything tech related.<\/p>\n<p>With my friend <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShawnMilo\">Shawn Milochik<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0we record a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/devth.ink\/\">DevThink podcast<\/a><\/strong>, where\u00a0we discuss ideas and practices that worked for us in our software development journey so far. We\u2019re also discussing the topics that we\u2019re currently exploring and learning about.<\/p>\n<p>For a very long time, I was passionate about the Ionic framework and am still in the top answerers\u00a0on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/users\/534755\/nikola\">StackOverflow<\/a><\/strong> in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/tags\/ionic-framework\/topusers\/\">Ionic<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/tags\/ionic-framework\/topusers\/\"> <strong>frame<\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/tags\/ionic-framework\/topusers\/\">work<\/a>.<\/strong> I wrote a book about Ionic framework which you can get for free on Leanpub: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/leanpub.com\/ionic-framework\">Ionic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/leanpub.com\/ionic-framework\"> fram<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/leanpub.com\/ionic-framework\">ework<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/leanpub.com\/ionic-framework\"> &#8211; step by step from idea through prototyping to the app stores<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Other technical writing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wrote a book <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/leanpub.com\/meantodo\">Getting MEAN with MEMEs<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>was a technical reviewer for a book <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.packtpub.com\/web-development\/deploying-nodejs\">Deploying Node<\/a><\/strong> published by Packt<\/li>\n<li>was a technical reviewer for a book <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1U9N1ZU\">Getting started with Ionic<\/a><\/strong> published by Packt<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/miscellaneou\/writing-300-posts-think-start-blogging\/\">After writing 300 posts, this is why I think you should start blogging too<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/math-behind-reading-30-books-per-year\/\">The math behind reading 30 books per year<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/miscellaneou\/make-remote-developer\/\">How to &#8216;make it&#8217; as a remote developer?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/want-improve-read-books\/\">If you want to improve, read these books<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/miscellaneou\/git-branching-done-right-gitflow-improving-code-quality-code-reviews\/\">Git branching done right with Gitflow &amp; improving code quality with code reviews<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find out more about my other projects at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/#portfolio\">http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/#portfolio<\/a><\/strong>, or come to the\u00a0local meetup that I&#8217;m hosting called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/MeCoDe\/\"><strong>MeCoDe<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In case you want to contact me, you can use <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HitmanHR\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong> or my <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/#contact\">contact form<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/users\/534755\/nikola\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"profile for Nikola at Stack Overflow, Q&amp;A for professional and enthusiast programmers\" src=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/users\/flair\/534755.png\" rel=\"lightbox[2611]\" alt=\"profile for Nikola at Stack Overflow, Q&amp;A for professional and enthusiast programmers\" width=\"208\" height=\"58\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an engineer at heart and a jack of all trades kind of guy. 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