About me

I do freedom tech stuff. I rant about lightning. I'm interested in AI. I want to combine all of these (minus the ranting) into something that pushes the quest for freedom one step forward.

I build various things - check them out here. I run a few directories. You can see a list of talks, interviews and podcasts, together with slides I've done here.

I started bolt.observer with the mission of making lightning nodes less painful to run. You can read more about it on bolt.observer's blog.

I started Bitcoin Ljubljana meetup in order to have more people to talk about Bitcoin with. It has become very successful and ended up being much more than just that. You can read the story about it here.

I was part of the experiment called SEC-01, short for Sovereign Engineering Cohort - 01,

Experience

nostr.net | Founder | Jan 2022 - Present
Created nostr.net (biggest directory of all things nostr)
Running various nostr infrastructure:

relay.nostr.net (public relay)
wot.nostr.net (web of trust relay)
nostr.at (http nostr gateway)

Bolt Observer Inc | Founder | Feb 2022 - Present
Pioneering enterprise lightning network solutions with automated liquidity management and data platform for businesses

Bitcoin Ljubljana | Co-Founder | Aug 2021 - Sep 2023
Built vibrant bitcoin community in Ljubljana
Organized monthly bitcoin events and presentations
Focused on educating newcomers in the space

InSec | Owner | Nov 2014 - Jan 2023
Consulting company focused on infrastructure and security. Some of the projects:

Datacenter planning and migration for major regional web hosting provider
High availability infrastructure design for real-time energy sector applications
Designing privacy infrastructure for anonymous cryptocurrency project

Bitstamp | Head of Platform | Jan 2018 - Jun 2021
Built System Operations department from scratch, later expanded the department with 5 additional teams - Security, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Data Engineering and Technical Support

Previous Experience

Zero Science Lab | Information Security Engineer (2012 - 2019)
Security engineering, penetration testing, system administration

Compucorp Ltd | DevOps Tech Lead (2016 - 2017)
Implemented DevOps culture, AWS/Linux administration, automation

cyberGRID GmbH | System Administrator (2015 - 2017)
Infrastructure for Demand/Response solutions in energy grids

NIL Data Communications | IT System Engineer (2011 - 2014)
System administration, security automation, infrastructure management, backend development

NETS d.o.o | System administrator (2010 - 2011)
System administration, backend development in Java

MMC Pulsar | IT support (2006 - 2010)
Tech support, hardware and software repairs, website management, electronics, various projects (city wide wifi covereage, electronics designs for art installations, technical advisor for screen play)