Full Stack Developer

Tim
Hrovat

I build the parts people actually touch.

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Tim Hrovat

Ljubljana, Slovenia

I build the parts people actually touch.

I care about how software feels to use and how it holds up underneath. Most of what gets made now stops at the first version that works, and what interests me is the one after it: the interaction that lands where you expected, the schema that still fits the problem a year later, the request that isn’t trusted just because it arrived. Generation is cheap now and pulls everything toward the average. Going past average is still a choice, and people feel the difference even when they can’t say why.

Currently a full stack developer at eŠola d.o.o., the team behind eAsistent, a school platform used across Slovenia. Alongside it I’m finishing a Computer and Information Science degree at FRI UNI Ljubljana. The thesis is all that’s left.

Education

Stack

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • NestJS
  • PHP
  • Java
  • C++
  • MySQL
  • Prisma
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • Rancher
  • Jest
  • GitLab
  • Claude
  • JavaScript
  • Vue
  • Nuxt
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Laravel
  • C
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • RabbitMQ
  • Argo CD
  • Go
  • GitHub
  • Figma

Experience

Where I’ve worked.

Software Developer

eŠola d.o.o. (eAsistent)Dec 2022 – Present

My first engineering job, and the one that taught me the most. Full stack work on eAsistent, the school platform used by schools, teachers, students and parents across Slovenia. Trusted to maintain what was already there, and to plan, architect and build what came next.

What I built

Company UI library
Designed and built from scratch. It is now the foundation every new project across the company starts on.
Public-facing experience
The public landing page and the authentication flow behind it, end to end, from the UI through to the backend.
Document management and signing
A system the company uses to generate, issue, track and electronically sign contracts and contract annexes for kindergartens across Slovenia.
School systemisation
Part of the team building a system for planning and managing a school’s organisational structure, staff, subjects, classes and the workflows around them.
Teacher payroll
Part of the team behind the calculation engine, carrying the rules and requirements of Slovenian legislation.
Timetable generator
The constraint-based algorithms underneath it, balancing a large set of school-specific rules against each other.
AI chat layer
Part of the team integrating an AI conversational layer into the school management platform, bringing LLM capabilities into existing workflows.

Across the stack

Legacy systems and migrations
Maintaining and extending the existing platform while leading the major migrations off it: Laravel 5 to 12, Vue 2 to 3.
Backend, frontend and database
The whole path through the application rather than a single layer of it.
CI/CD and infrastructure
Designing and maintaining the deployment pipelines and the infrastructure they run on.
Algorithms and prediction
Prediction models, and the constraint-heavy algorithms powering the timetable generator.

Beyond the code

Project leadership
Planning and leading projects from the initial requirements and architecture through to implementation and delivery.
Mentoring
New hires and students on placement, to the point where they are productive and independent.
Hiring
The technical side of engineering interviews, from interview design through to evaluating candidates.
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Vue
  • TypeScript
  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL

Software Development Intern

PhosphorlandMay 2022 – Jun 2022

Built the company website front to back during a month-long internship in Portugal: authentication, file storage and realtime data on Firebase, localised end to end with i18next.

  • React
  • Firebase
  • i18next

Engineering Intern

Hella Saturnus SloveniaAug 2021 – Aug 2021

A week on the factory floor building a workbench that guides a line worker through assembling a car headlight, one step at a time. A vision model checks each step as it is completed: screws seated, parts aligned. A fault surfaces at the step that caused it rather than at the end of the line.

Other work

Projects

Things I’ve built.

  • eAsistent landing page

    The public face of eAsistent, built end to end, and the sign-in behind it: two-factor, YubiKey, QR-code login from a signed-in phone, PIN and CAPTCHA. That is a lot of ways in, for an audience that ranges from teachers to parents to a fourteen-year-old on a school laptop.

    • PHP
    • Laravel
    • Vue
    Closed sourceLive

  • Media Attention Analyzer

    An interactive tool for exploring what Slovenian media covered and when, across 73,461 RTV articles from 2017 to 2026. It draws an attention timeline for any topic, finds the peaks on its own, and breaks each one down with TF-IDF, UMAP and k-means. FastAPI and scikit-learn behind a React and ECharts front end.

    • Python
    • scikit-learn
    • React
    Source

  • UpLearn

    A school management system built end to end as my graduation project at Vegova: timetables, lessons, absences, grading, staff and events across nineteen related models. NestJS and Prisma on PostgreSQL behind a React front end, with JWT auth, mail and Excel export.

    • NestJS
    • React
    • PostgreSQL
    Source

  • Wordle Engine

    A solver that plays Wordle against a 15,964-word dictionary, averaging 4.1 guesses and solving every word in the list. Written in Java with its own test harness to score it over the whole dictionary.

    • Java
    Source

  • Side-Scroller Engine

    A side-scrolling platformer written from scratch against SDL2: an entity-component system, tilemaps, collision and animation, with levels, a scoreboard and saved runs. An exercise in object-oriented design, and in hunting down memory leaks in C++.

    • C++
    • SDL2
    Source

Contact

Let’s build something together.

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